The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-03-13
DISCUSSION OF
HIGH EDUCATION
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What 10 Character

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iiy character 1t is often argued thai
intellect and moral development &C
together. History however, disap
proves such a statement. II that
were true the peasant, II pious even
though he had no education would be
Shakespeare or a Milton. Then
goodness must accompany scholar
! ship, and so every scholar would be
a moral man; which Is not the case q.
Intellectual culture may be and Of,
ten is accompanied by character, but
It is not identical with IL. Did intel
lect save Solomon from vice, Bacon
from bribery, or Byron from immor.
atty? Coleridge says: "All the mere
products of the understanding tend
to death.
Wealth Is not character, although
IL is often substituted for it. People
without character, but with money,
often are admitted into respectable
society. Wealth in the hands of weak.
ness Is fearful thing. 1t is not true
that money making has the tenden.
cy to Danish great thoughts and fine
feelings. Why is so much immortality
connected with wealth.
Reputation is not character. Char
acter Is what man is. Reputation is
what man thinks him to be; and Of
ten these two things are reversed by
the newspapers. Character rs what
man is before Cod reputation is
what he Is before men; reputation is
for time character is for eternity.
Character Is what is when nobody is
looking. A mans character can no
more be strengthened by reputation
than fence by whitewash.
What then is character? The
word signifies something scored or
engraved, and carries with it an abid.
ing significance; so we may speak
Of character as that which sets forth
certain abiding results which have |
been scored or engraved in the soul |
If man by the experience of life. |
'haracter is the stamp on our souls |
Il the free choices of good or evil |
Ne have been making continually |
through life. 1t Is that which en-
raves upon all We do. Character is
What we are in the hidden recesses
nd not merely on the surface of
,ur lives; it is not really what men
AXE us to be, but what We are be. |
ore God as our Judge. Character is
/ rue man, true women, ut their
,est, and highest, best and truest
lature.
The man of character is faithful
nd truthful His armor is honest
bought, and simple truth his utmost
ikill," He does not profess thing
he does not intend to do; he does not
promise thing which he knows is
rot in his power to fulfill. No con-
iideration can justify the sacrifice of |
ruth which ought to be sovereign in |
he relations of life, A lie is never
Some one has said that other vices
are virtues compared to lying. yet
how lightly esteemed is falsehood.
Lying oftimes assumes the form OF
expediency, moral reser-
We ton, lodging the question. twist
Ing words and giving wrong impress
slons.
Character is characterized by mod
esty and purity, The bloom on a
peach is the very first consideration
to its life and perpetuation, and the
finest thing about man or a wom-
an is the fine bloom on the mind and
the conscience. This feeling is more
effectual for our protection than
walls of granite or gates OF brass.
Take care of the delicacy OF your
mind, retain THE power 10 plush, re-
spect the alarm and shrinking Of the
soul at the faintest suspicion Of evil.
Let cynical that color, ana see that
you keep il" for 1t is infinitely bet
ter than the sere and yellow leaf OF
A wasted life. Live so modestly, so
purely, so resolutely for your God
that your whole moral nature shall
continue
Quick as the apple of an eye,
The slightest touch on sin to feel
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