The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-04-28

fire and burns up completely and
everybody escapes without mark
or injury and the whole contents of
the building are saved; pleasure
boat sails over Niagara Falls with
no other bad effect than sudden
jar to the occupants: the politicians
meet in common council and declare
their enmity to one another on every
question of public policy, in terms OF
universal benevolence These would
be reports not easy of belief II,
however, the reports could be veri
fled and found corresponding to fact
in all eases. Then truth i'm this case
would mean accuracy.
The Inaccurate Mind.
IAN inaccurate mind is "a danger.
Gus thing and much to be dreaded
An absurdly inaccurate mind is
joke and no great harm can
come of il for no reliance or
trust can ever repOse in the person
having such. The thing to be dread
ed is the habit of inaccuracy in the
serious affairs of life. When the fact
is an order to stop an express train,
the recognition Of coast light or a
headland on the sea coast, the
proper reading of a physicians pre-
scriptiOn by druggist, the proper
path for a knife to travel in the
case of delicate operation, the rec
ognition Of hailing sign or sign
OF distress, We see at once the neces-
sity Of accuracy.
Stick to the Truth.
when we think of the millions
that are daily sent forth in response
to call of accurate information, when
we think of the human minds and
lives blasted by the inaccuracies of
the educational, social, political and
fear in many cases by the religious
teachers of the world can we not
estimate the almost incredible value
in having and maintaining the most
accurate and exact mind Think
what this habit of mental exactness
would do for knowledge. for science,
for medicine, for the courts of JUS
tice. What a transformation would
come over the world of men within
the borders of our own and other
orders. What pillows of pain and
sorrow would cease to roll, if only
men and women would confine their
conversation TO what they actually
knew
Fen ministers. they haze been kenned
In holy rapture,
ronsing Wild at times TO vend,
And naipt wi Scripture.
There could not be more impress
sive example of the peril of mac
curacy than the sentence passed on
the London publisher who issued
the Bible with the negatives left ont
OF the ten commandments. His work
was destroyed and he was sent to
the Tower of London not only for
sacrilege but for inaccuracy
Statement and Thought.
Second. We speak of truth as the
agreement of statement and thought.
The comparison here is between
what man puts into words and
what he really holds in his heart.
The detestation of the world has in
all ages been flung at the character
whose lips state one thing while his
heart holds to another. In the Greek
poet Homer we find the following
words: hate as gates of hell the
man who says one thing with his
lips and conceals another in his
heart Another illustration will be
found in the story of Joab and
Amassa as recorded in the Old
testament. 1t runs as follows: And
Joab said to Amassa, Is it well with
thee, my brother? And Joab took
Amassa by the beard with his right
hand to kiss him. But Amassa took
no heed to the sword that was I'm
JOab's hand Under the pretense of
the most loyal friendship, Joab
Killed this man. The outward act
was the act Of a friend; the inward
thought was the thought of an as.
SasSin
Betrayal of Jesus.
Judas comes to the Garden of
Gethsemane TO betray Jesus. He
mas given a sign to the enemies of
Jesus, who are familiar with his
personal appearance; the man whom
Judas will kiss they are to appre-
mend, that man is their prisoner
judas has kept his promise, and as
he advanced, Jesus recoiled from
him with horror: Judas, betrayest
thou the Son Of Man with a kiss p
/ 'Dost thou employ the symbol of
love as a cover for treason?' A de-
voted friend in appearance but in
thought and inmost purpose a real
betrayer. Herein lies the hideous.
ness OF it all. The pledge of honor
the open hand upon which is placed
the blood red heart is forever 2