Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-12-07

to he swift of foot you will not cult
vate the limbs only, but the Who'll,
body. A man must not only know
facts, but have his mind sharpenet
by his acquisitions and by careful
thought and habit, so as to apply hi
mind to all things coming to him
His education should be not alone tC
store, but to develop. An eminen
writer says to overlay the mind will
borrowed ornaments, and store i
with borrowed opinions, is no NOR
than to swell the body by supertlu
Gus raiment and ornaments. Wha
we receive we should take as by di
gestion, and let it be builded into ant
assimilated with the whole being
and thus shall knowledge by thought
be built into strength.
CALCULATING EAlGENClES.
The business man who can calcu.
late the probabilities and forecast ex.
igencies, is the successful one. We
may fall into the treadmill way OF
dong anything, but by doing our
own thinking, we shall see the end
and pave our way to it. We want
careful, thinking business men in
this land and in these days. Imposi-
ton will always be practised by
those who will he leaders, if we. are
willing to be their dupes and let
them think for us. When few work
on the passions of the many who
have not been accustomed to think
for themselves, they can work speedy
ruin, and recent events in the history
of our country prove it. If the dam
gers we have passed through have
taught us anything, the lesson has
been that there is danger in blind ad-
herence to party, AID that greater
danger threatening is that of men
surrendering the God-given right to
do their own thinking. If this has
not been clearly written by our his
tory, then the experiences of the
recent past has 'een in vain. In re-
ligion, in law, in government, what
shall you believel Win you ask
your minister, your counsel, your
lawyer, and content yourself with
one view? How are we to know
which to accept among the claimants
for medical authority, some of whom
are brazen-faced, some brazen-
throated, and others impudent!
There is no way to show that the
island on which one stands in the
ocean about US is firm based but by
reading, and by instituting vigor-
Gus comparison between all. The
curse we labor under is restless in
stability. We are told this indicates
a thinking people, people demand
ing something new, because they
have outgrown the old. This is
error, though in sense thought is
progrcss; butit also establishes truth
from which there can b. no advance.
For example, it afiirms the law that
all men have equai rights; it APP
proves the essential truths of the
Bible as in harmony with mans
nature and wants; it atfirms the Co
pernican theory in astronomy, as
an authenticated fact.
KEEPING THE WORLD MOVING,
A thinking people should have
settled principles, and not keep the
world in commotion by attacks on
first truths. If we do our own think
ing, such attack will cease. No one
attacks the theory of the rotundity
of the earth, or that it revolves about
the sun, because such are established
truths. There will be doubts, there
will be excitements, there will be
conflicts, but the habit of though,
will fit us to meet all these serenely
The events of the past three
months teach us that there are mer
skillful when all favors, who are un'
manned when the storms come, ano
they are forced out of their &C
customed channels. 1t is useless te
talk OF circumstances as net woven
tor the soul to trammel or help it
The plan OF creation includes US in i
as free agents, and we are to use cir
cumstances as means to work ou
our ends, and thus rule circum
stances. All things without are ele
ments; the creative forces are deeI
within us. Mans mind must neve
be the creature of its condition. Ma
homet heard his servant say: -
will loose my camel now and com
nit it to God" "Nay," said Ma
homet, "Tie thy camel, and the'
commit it to Cod" The devil has NJ
worse enemy than the honest think
ing man. Now is the day OF broa'
and oman fialds for enterprise, witt