The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-02-15
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY is, 1894.
Thou.ht Makes Character and Com
Nl1iOnH.

EhoHSht makes Character and Con
NliiOns.
AS to character and many condition
Thought is creator. That to whicl
II man gives intense thought enter
into the formation Of his character
just as the food he eats contributes
to the formation Of strength anC
muscle. "Out of tho abundance Of
the heart the mouth speaketh" is not
true for the reason that Christ spoke
it, but Christ spoke it because it was
truth. Any man ,bay begin to think
evil of his ncishbor without just
cause, and follow up the evil trend of
thought until the conviction grows on
him and in him that his innocent and
friendly nciShbor is IL designing and
selfish rascal. The next chance he
gets he will slight or ignore his limo.
cent nc;yhGor, then the latter begins
to think evil OF the folmer, and comes
to n like illogical conclusion in regard
to an honest, innocent friend In Il
weeks time the community has two
positive rascnlH, where before there
were two innocent and friendly neigh.
bors, and yet nothing has been done.
There has only been evil Thought.
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evil thought, and then it does it's
dirty work in stirring up envy and
jealousy and making bitter enemies
out of lifelong friends. This thing
il going on every day in this State
1t is hurting families, injuring com.
mmilics, rrtur,ing the work Of the
church, flying in tie face of the law
shooting poisoned arrows at white
winged peace, and poluting the living
fountains of confidence, whence al
must get inspirations of love. Th,
original evil WAS nothing but {
thought, broodcd by jealousy ane
winged 10y malice, "nd then it thirst>
for blood.
All people have property rights in
their honesty Of purpose, in THEN
mutual esteem, faith, love and conf
dence. These are the subtle ties that
make societies, communities and
States better abodcs than jungles
dens and caves. He who thinks evil
of his neishbor and tries to set others
to think with him is trying to weaken
these ties npd eject the citizen from
his just and legal heritage. He is
going further: lie is forming for him
self and his ahcttors the character Of
the assassin. He is putting the mid.
night torch to the unprotected prop
erty Of sleeping Innocence, to light the
way for avaricc, to build the castle Of
guilty ambition on the ruins Of inno-
cent love.
Evil thoughts poison the heart,
ruin the character, wreck the life and |
exile the man from all that is good |
and noble in his life. Evil thoughts
rise; they do not come down to a man.
Praying, bartizing and taking the
don't 50 with the man
who is thinking evil and preaching
the gospel of hatred. Thinking evil
kills the communion, kills baptism,
kills praying, kills the church and
robs the State.
Evil communications corrupt good |
but evil thinking corrupts
good characters. 1t has gr.wn in,
around and over many good men in
The State, like the poison oak on the
stalwart king of the forest, sapping
Its strength 10 corrupt the atmos.
phcra. Thus it has insinuated itself
into the political clccds of all parties
and factions, and forever sealed the
doctrine that church aud State must
be separate; for, mnn who adopts
TIC creed OF one has absolutely no use |
Tor the Gre. 4 Of the other. Never.
The man who is not good for
the service Of one is not fit for the
service OF the othcr. We must get
III better shape. 1t is time to set our
mouse in order, before the shotgun
ana dagger undertake to supptant the
law aud the courts. There ia now
TOO much distrustful material in the
pillars of the State. We want the
rulers to hut the grand jurioe, and
the grand jurics and the people To-
trust the rulers. There is no sens.or
reason i'll thinking evil of each other
because we da not like the same kind
of whiskoy.
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