The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-03

reverence themselves. Surface COM
plants show themselves and are treat
ed; chronic diseases too often sap the
strength until too late. Against these
let us be watchful, instead of lifting
up holy" hands in horror at some
wretched yielder to anger.
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AsententiOus individual when asked
the time-old question, SIS life worth
living?" replied very aptly, THAT de-
pends on the liver" True enough!
whether you have in mind person
or an organ of the body. SO mark
you, before we go any further, that in
food there is both life and death The
very elements that strengthen us, and
build our tissues, begin to poison us
unless they are removed from the
body as soon as their work is done,
and in this labor of removal, the or
gan mentioned above does quiet, un-
complaining service under great ag-
gravation from some of us, unholy
eaters of complex dishes. So far as
our bodily life is concerned. the world
is nothing -bSSS5s ,a.tt fesding-ctib,
whereat we must linger, if we would
live, and whereby we are laying up
painful burdens to ourselves unless
we eat wisely and not too WELL But
just as the child is discontented with
creeping, after it once stands upright,
SO the joys of the world of thought
make us sink to secondary place of
joys of the world of food, and the
"liver's" estimate of life and its..worth
is settled by the thoughts he has. If
he is satisfied with the thoughts of
Others and let's them pass through his
brain like water passes through an
open sluice- ce-way-mark-it is not as
tonishing that he finds life empty.
Thought, like food, must be made to
surrender to us nourishment, which
thereupon becomes part of ourselves.
If he takes of the thought of time
past, holds, swears by the knowledge
he gained years ago, closes his mind
both against the gaining or giving of
new, progressive, helpful ideas, little
wonder that life seems like the mock
cry of daylight to blind man.
Thought like food must be constantly
added to and never retained indef-
nitely without re-acting upon the
world we live in,-or we stagnate in
mind and become sluggish and ulti-
mately useless.
Or if he holds himself ready to be
stuffed with opinions quicker than he
can digest them-like some unhappy
turkeys that | remember in my child
hood as being periodically forced
gorge-full of barley meal-it is not
surprising that he takes a muddled
and bewildered view of the one life to
the end of which he is Fastening.
1t is thought that makes life worth
living. Many of my readers will not
be able to agree with me at once, but
later we shall, Right thoughts make
right acts and right acts make life
worth the struggle ofseeing it through.
Very few of us stop to reckon the in !
fluence of thought on the world. |
Every improvement of nature, every
artificial change in the surface of the |
earth, is the result of thought taking
shape in the brain of one man or gen
erations of men. Every political |
privilege, every fight for conquest
over enemies outside or within our
selves is the outcome of thought; every
betterment of mems conditions on
ward from the cave-dwellers to our
modern comforts, has first taken form
in some mans mind; every straining
upward of the race toward morals or
towards God is Thought Thought!
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