Youth and Chastity #271599

They sit at my desk and in the retirement of my room reveal the secret hopes and aspirations of their youthful souls. When they disclosed to me their trifling troubles which they, however, regarded as immensely crushing; when they sobbed out their numerous little sorrows which they took in deadly seriousness; when they placed their young souls with their worries and pro found problems in my hand, and when then their wide open eyes said with eager thirst: Advise me, what shall I do -at such times, in those inspired moments, did I learn to realize that the soul of every boy is a diamond mine of immeasurable value, a promise for the future, charged with unlimited possibilities to assist in the proper development of which is not only the sacred duty of us adults, but also comes to us as a great honor.