Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1911-02-02

: IS Just what we mean WhCn we say.
Habit gives proficiency Habit
makes its indelib!e impression on all
We say or do, nor can we. even II
We try, avoid this impression. You
can not walk. or talk as little child
does. You once could but experience
has put You beyond the power t. ever
/ do it again. The experienced carpen-
| ter can not take his saw or plane and
J handle either OF them a, he did the
/ urst time. The chips or shaving will
, tell oi his experience, and he can not
avoid it. We can no more go back
! into the peculiarities OF our carly ef
! forts than we can retrace the years
OF the past, and it is only when we
clearly understand the use, power and
, force OF habit that we are prepared
to understand the great Importance
OF forming them correctly. The great
difference between the character abil-
ity and lives OF men Is chiefly 4 diff
ference OF habits. The child that is
controlled as it should be. taught TO
be industrious and truthful, 10 deal
fairly with its fellows. to be respect
jul to those older than itself and in
short. is trained up in the right way
until maturity is settled in its ways
and it. customs ca thought and action
are fixed by years Of experience.
/ here Is no reason why it should de-
part from them, any more than there
Is that you should depart from your
settled ways oi fifteen or twenty
years. 1t is the subject OF habit, as
much 50 as you are, and will just as
naturally follow is customs as you
will follow yours These are chord,
o. mighty power and strength. .tron-
g,r than letters OF brass. They ar
not precepts only but precept, prac-
uced through a series of years. We
have precepts and example. both
good, but this is precept and example
wrought into habit and demonstrated
IL life under the eye OF the teacher
Here is the great future in childhood
culture, 1t stops short OF the true
mark. Many teach very we'll and set
good example, but they do not en-
force, they do not require an abs olute
performance.
Ii you know what is right. and ex-
poet in after life to walk accordingly |
thereto with ease and comfort to |
yourself begin early to form the
habit OF doing it and it will become |
as a second nature to you, but if you |
form wrong habits, although you may |
change them, they will trouble you
as long as you live The great benefit
OF education is not so much the
knowledge you gain as the habit OF
thinking correctly and rapidly. This
habit well formed will soon enable
you to acquire knowledge and to use
it also. One man by force of men,
DRY can repeat all the contents of a
college curriculum and is not a
thinker, is in attainment but little
above chattering parrot. Another
reasons his way along. thinking much
as he goes. The first is reputed
scholar. but the second is the edu-
Gated man. He is habitual thinker.
and will search for the nature and
reason of things.
My young friend never trihe with
tho tender beginnings of an evil habit,
for if you do it will bind you hand
and foot when you think you are in
not the least danger, and mock you
in your weakness when you know
you are not strong. Remember some
habits are good and others are evil,
and it is the came beautiful gate that
shuts in heaven that shuts out hell.
Set your feet in the right way and |
Keep on and you will be stronger to-
morrow than you are to-day and
when old and feeble you will be glad
;ou chose the right way.
JOHN (. PnARD. Il