The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-07

where civilization is dominant, the de-
velopment of the mind and spirit is
held to be the highest privilege of man
ano the clear duty of all who have the
training of the people in charge.
Nowadays it is "the thinking bay
onet" that wins all the wars. Trained
brains are more potent than big clubs
or great guns. Not the man who car
shoot straightest, but the one who car
think best. comes off victor in the
struggle of life.
The awakening CT the East is an
awakening to education. The walls
of some Syrian cities are placarded
knowledge!" The vogue of the day
with the young oriental is western
learning. In an unexampled de-
gree it has become the business of
Christendom to see that with all their
getting, these eager youths get the
wisdom that comes down from above.
To mend the mind is to lift the life.
| AS man thinketh. so is he.''
The art and habit of thinking is
in itself of first educational value.
There is much wisdom in the words
of he humorist, George AIDE, You can
lead boy to college, but you can't
make him think" Not all who own
diplomas have mastered the art of
| clear, Independent consecutive
thought. On the other hand, many
| great thinkers have been ignorant of
books. They have learned life's les
sons from life itself. With seeing eyes
| they have looked upon the passing
| show of life. Behind the fact they
have sought for the reason. The
vigor and penetration of the thought
fulness of many unlettered persons
has been the wonder of every OBJ
server. Wisdom and "book-learning"
are by no means synonymous.
Nobody ever drifted into an edu-
cation. Conscious effort to direct ones
reading and thinking into the best
| channels is an absolute requisite.
Choice must be made of books, of
friends and of pleasures. One cannot
read trash and think literature.
The peculiar faculty of imparting
real culture is possessed in a unique
degree by the Bible. Nobody who
reads the Bible regularly and intelli-
gently can remain ignorant. The
judgment is strengthened and clarified,
the minds horizon is widened, and its
perceptions quickened by the steady
perusal of the volume which is
adequately described as 1.-The Book"
Amos R. Wells says:-
Minds are improved by contact
with wiser minds; and the wiser you
are, the more people you will find
that in some points know more than
you do. !
Minds are improved by exercise.
Minds are enlarged by thinking as
muscles by working.
minds that are not improving are
degenerating. Like tree, when |
mind ceases to grow it begins to die.
Some studies are to give informa-
ton other studies, even more inn
portant, are to develop power
THE additions that will improve /
moniously with the plan of the house;
and thus 1t is not every study and
every book that will improve the
mind.
1.-The improving of a farm is proved
by the crops. You cannot really i'm
prove your mind without seeing the
results in your life"
A lew books well studied and thorough
Iy digested nourish the understanding
more than hundreds but gargled in the
mouth, as ordinary students use.-Osborn.
There are more men ennobled by study
than by nature--Cicero.
AS turning the logs will make dun
fire burn. SO change of studies a dull
He that studies only men will get the
body of knowledge without the soul; and
he that studies only books, the soul with
out the body.-Colton.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
never knew any man in my life who
could not bear another's misfortunes per-
fectly like a Christian--Pope.
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60 forth under the open sky, and list
To Natures teachings. Bryant
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Because right is right, to follow right
We're wisdom in the scorn OF consequence.
-Tennyson.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. slow to
wrath.-James la
Clever men are good, but they are not
he best.-CarlyIe.
Were I tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span
I must be measured by my soul:
The minds the standard of the man.
Watts.
He is great who is what he is from |
Nature. and who never reminds US of
EVERYBODY'S BIBLE BOX.
Q.-What became of Adam when !
1e died; did he go to heaven or hell?
Answer.-We may be sure Adam l
lid not go to heaven at death. because