324 putation and station in society. They are rather prone “to prefer present pleasure and enjoyment to what will tend to promote their after welfare. They have ofer Iittle self-denia, and hink it hard to giv ար even the smaller immediate indulgences for the sake of future usefulness. If they can be sensibly happy now, they seldom calculate how much they may really lesser their future influence and respectability. But it was otherwise with the wise and under. standing Daniel. He felt that he was not made merely for selfish and sensual enjoyment; and he knew, though ie was yet young, that, even if this were his object, the true way to enjoy the most of worldly good, is to be, in early life, moderate and temperate in the use ànd pursuit of it. He reflected, moreover, that he should soon arrive at tmanñood, and that thenç he would need a vigorous body and a well-furnished mind, to perform the various duties of any station he might be called to fill. He therefore wisely andresolutely resolved to abst.n from the king's dainties. Thus he learned to govern his appetites in his youth, and was “temperate in all things.”
