Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-01
IS Tbinking a qost art?
By the Churchman.

ut easy for the human mind to think and 1t
u never harder than today when headlines and halt
tones give the of the days when general
tendency to superfcaly pervades society," 1t IS easy
enough to read and talk. One delude himself
with the idea that he is thinking when he is really indul
ing in idle and uitless revere do you that senator
pacing up and down the CORRIDOR" said recently
pointing distinguished representative OF New Eng
land at the Capitol "He has his hands ull behind his
back and he looks much absorbed in what he IS dong
He really thinks that he is thinking
Ah yes there is sharp difference between thinking
that we think and the real art. know professional
man so familiar with the tricks of his mind that he
keeps two three hard subjects about his or on
his desk and when his mind slips away from his grasp and
refuses to grappe the particular subject upon which ne
first work he directs to of the other sub
ects saying in substance You have got to work some,
where even you work the thing appointed YOU
This scholar claims that in the long he gets
suits his thinking and that if the mind realizes that
its means to keep it at work somewhere VIII more
It never desirable for the average man to
cultivate his thinking propensities than today when great
questions being brought to the bar OF popular udg
rent when being asked decide at the polls
questions formerly committed to legislatures to some
anybody else do thinking for concerning matters
relating politics, industry, amusements or Religion
Only weldiscplned mind is equal to the task, but
are the OF minds, and can IT we WILL hold
them I'D to the doing of the work for which they
originally given Otherwise we become like sheep fol-
LOWING the cue of any chance leader change the figure
like caf driven about by any wind of popular frenzy
One simple remedy is the devotion OF as short time
as fifteen minutes day to hard thinking on some definite
is dressing travelling the waiting for some
one else to his appointments he be thinking
steadily resolutey and productivity 1t will come hard at
first ali mental effort does in the field either of the i'm
aenation memory of constructive thinking but soon
as the wheels we'll oiled and in running order they
easily and by and by the mind springs to its
task responding gladly to the challenge to its inherent
powers.
The subjects on which think important
the process itself AS and destined to live be-
yond the reach of earthly years. and women
CHARGED with various responsibilities professional paen
~s1yf 0f1Ohf To he
that present themselves for consideration those which have
permanent rather than transient interest those which
are really worth while whatsoever things honorable
whatsoever things just whatsoever things pure
whatsoever things lovely whatsoever things OF
good report think these things All, there is wide
and high field the exercise of mental powers Why
souander these faculties the passing show the
gossip Of the the chtcat of society the concerns
that have do simply with eating and drinking
and Our merrymaking? We may think such subjects
until doomsday and not be any better wiser whereas
if we think high things, things relating to God and his
purposes in the world and his highest welfare
Shall have subjects of thought worthy of immortal
beings and yielding rich fruitage.