Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1911-02-02
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Habit gives proficiency Habi,
makes its indelible impression on all
We say or do. nor can we. even II
We try, avoid tins impression. You
can not walk. or talk as little child
does. You once could but experience
has put you beyond the power 10 ever
do it again. The experienced carpen-
ter can not take his saw or plane and
handle either OF them a, he did the
hrst time. The chips or shaving will
tell OF his experience, and he can not
avoid it. We can no more go back
into the peculiarities OF our early ef-
forts than we can retrace the years
of the past. and il is only when we
clearly understand the use. power and
force OF habit tina. we are prepared
to understand the great importance
OF forming them correctly The great
difference between the character abil-
ity and lives of men u chiefly a diff
ference oi habits The child that is
controlled as II should be. taught 10
be industrious and truthful, 10 deal
fairly with its fellows. to be respect
iul to those older than itself and in
short. is trained up in the right way
until maturity is settled in its ways
and is customs o. thought and action
are fixed by years Of experience.
There is no reason why il should de-
part from them. any more than there
- that you should depart from your
settled ways OF fifteen or twenty
years IL IS the subject OF habit. as
much so as you are. and will just as
naturally follow IT, customs as you
will follow yours. These are chords
o. mighty power and strength. strOn-
ger than letters OF brass. They are
not precepts only but precepts prac-
ticed through series OF years. We
have precepts and example. both
good. but this is preoept and example
wrought into habit and demonstrated
in life under the eye OF the teacher
Here is the great future in childhood
culture II stops short of the true
mark Many teach very we'll and set
a good example. but they do not en-
force. they do not require an absolute
performance.
II you know what is right. and cx-
ptct in after life to walk accordingly
thereto with ease and comfort 10
yourself begin early to form the
habit OF doing it and it will become |
as 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 we'll formed will soon enable |
you to acquire knowledge and to use
II also. One man by force OF mem
DRY can repeat all the contents OF a
college curriculum and is not a
thinker, is in attainment but little
above a chattering parrot Another
reasons his way along. thinking much
as he goes. The first is reputed a
scholar. but the second is the edu-
Gated man. He is a habitxal thinker.
and will search for the nature and
reason of things.
My young friend never trihe with
the 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,
md it is the came beautiful gate that
shuts in heaven that shuts out hell.
Set your feet in the right way and
<eep 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.