Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-15
SEEKING ADVICE.
Good Counsel Needs to BE Carefully Com
sidered as Well as Sought.

Uood Sounsei Needs TO be Carefully Con
| sidered as Well as Sought.
Few persons embody all wisdom.
Our range of observation and informa-
| ton is necessarily limited. The stand
point of observation is not the same
with all. Hence different persons look
at the same thing in different lights.
And the more comprehensive our view
the more correct our information and
judgment. SeH-reliance does not pre-
elude seeking and receiving advice. 1t
does not follow that we abandon our
judgment in doing so. The self-reliant
person assimilates what he receives in
the way of advice, and acts on it as in
corported with his own judgment. In
this form advice is valuable, because
weighed and tested A person can be
needless and thoughtleSs in this. To
impulsively follow up every suggestion
is to act without proper thought or
care. Such persons fail in life, because
they are subject to all sorts of conflict
ing proposals.
Advice needs to be carefully con-
sidered and sifted, as well as sought.
1t may be given under Misrepresentation
of facts. and so lead''astray. If We desire
the advice of another. in whose judg-
ment we have confidence, it is i'm
portant that all the data on which
sound judgment may be based. should
be furnished. If this is not done the
advice is erroneous. through no fault of
the giver. Persons often 20 to their
attorney and present a partial and in
terested statement of case. only to 60
into court to be defeated. The advice
of counsel, based on the statements
made, was proper, but the facts were
not as stated, and hence the advice was
wrong. Seeking advice, therefore,
presumes at least two things: The APP
plication to persons capable of giving
it, and the proper presentation of all
the facts on which the advice may be
given. These are obviously necessary
to even sound and right advice.
1t is not, therefore, advisable to seek
suggestions from all who come. There
are those ever ready to give advice
who should be carefully avoided. They
are of the sef-opinionated class, who
are unequal to any sound judgment,
but who are ever ready to pass judg-
ment on anything that comes before
them. To seek or give advice is a very
serious, important matter. If the oc-
casion be one that calls for evenly bal
anced estimate, it also calls for all the
facts, and that these shall be weighed
with judicial calmness. And prudent
person viii hesitate to give advice till
all the facts are at hand And were it
given, it would be of little value.
Nor is it wise to take all advice.
Even good advice is not desirable if we
lean on another's judgment and do not
it with our own. Self
reliance is essential to success in life,
and this depends on much else than
the opinions of others. 1t must rest ON
in our own judgment,
and. however that Judgment is reached, |
we are to have confidence in it Thus /
advice should be sought. not to be !
blindly followed, but to be assimilated |
and made part of our own. So used it |
simply is an aid in forming conclusions. |
which, once reached. will be carried |
out In our own way. thus received it |
IS of great value. 1t does not take the |
place of the independent action of our |
mind. Rather it is stimulus to our /
in that it imparts light to it.
This is the real use of advice. 1t helps |
IN the operations of our minds and so |
benefits. But if allowed to usurp the
place of our judgments it becomes an
injury. The effect of all this is evil;
out where advice is merely an aid it is
If great importance and stimulates self
,eIiance. which is the basis of all suo
,ess in Philadelphia CaA.