The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-20
j. @ 9. Weaver W., Chairman Republican State Central Committee.
The Value Of High Thinking.

Worthy thoughts are the surest guarantee of worthy
actions. High thinking is most conductive to right living.
The man whose contemplations habitually occupy a lofty
plane, whose mind runs in the channels OF refinement and
purity, may always invariably be set down as a good citizen
the most honorable title attainable in. this world. He has
Within his own breast the mightiest shield against evil from
without or within-the most powerful of all safeguards in
this life of Astounding temptations. 1t makes him proof
against the lnroads Of petty annoyances, SO fatally wearing
upon the mind of narrower caliber; and he sets and keens
constantly before his eyes a standard of dutv to himself and
to all SO high that merely to approximate it will make him
as the gods are.
Ills soul is filled with the largest charity, his heart with
ioVe' MS days with laudable endeavor; and he ii is that may
p CAMEO the true dispenser Of intellectual hospitality"
ne searches history for the most approved ideals in the line
% hulnah conduct to emulate, and in his turn upifts his
fellowmen by means of constant example in right thinlsing
and, therefore, in right living. He turns his eyes to the
dlamonded consultations of the NIGHTS still univarse. ba
nxes MS gaze upon the peaks of majestic mountains: he
hears and lnterprets the whispered messages of the forest
the awesome voice of the ocean; and these he recognizes as
MS kindred. They confer upon him their own largeness and
spired clay. ~
high thinking IS an unfailing source of happiness. Power
ty may pinch, prosperity shun, death and sickness bliob+.
YET mere is a perpetual welspring of serenity. here the Green
oasis OF delight amid the sterile desert of antagonistic y
v1fonment, here the unextinguishable light of Joy to pierce
the darkness OF despair. He to whom this boon is Given
mas Witnin him a resource more powerful and enduring than
the works OF man, more precious than all material treasurers
OF earth. 1t strengthens him for the conquering of severest
asks ana trials, it armors him with the helmet, corslet and
greave OF righteousness for the long and fierce battle with
sinful influence. Stronger comes he forth from every CON
fllct, for his the star that surely guides to victory. his the
equipment OF lnvlncibillty. The siren voice of seductive
transgresslon is wasted upon his ear. For him there Is no
yielding to specious ~expediency and consequent benumbing
OF conscience. 10 him a lie is the deepest of denominations
and coarseness a crime. Onward and upward does he still
pursue MS course, steeled against every adverse wind that
blows and fortified against all the blasts of shame, all the
Vaccinations OF evil in whatever guise. The light within
leads him in safety through snare, over pitfall and across
every blind chasm of peril, and, too, leads those who come
after. 10 the transports that keep his soul aglow the NOR
ally poor must be strangers. :.
This fountainhead Of power, this adjunct of divinity is
within the reach OF all. How unwise to put it asidel-St.
Paul Pioneer Press.