The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-25
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

By one offering He hath perfected
forever them that are sanctifed. He
brews 1914.
The blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth from all sin. 1 John 1:17.
Many a person squeezes his brain
dry because he uses his tongue so
much and his brain so little
Whether you are seIfmade or uni
Versity bred, remember there is more
to be learned from the tOmorrows
than you can ever gather from the
yesterdays.
The reason there is so much sor-
row in the world is because many of
our conclusions are based upon mac
curate information. Convictions are
oft times founded upon half truths.
To change a conviction is almost i'm
possible, but intelligent men easily
change or qualify their opinions. Be
very slow in forming deep seated
convictions. 1t is dangerous mental
procedure.
The war of ideas and the battle of
morals are always on.
Morality and technicality should
agree, but how often they clash.
EEE%
The most people l know have got
ten lost in the world.
The man who takes a delight in
rubbing the raw spots on other folks
is always really hated. He never
thinks his raw spots are plainly to be
seen; but it is through the kindness
of heart of other people, that the
scabs of his own weaknesses are not
knocked off.
When you get the habit. of whist
ling up the ''same old tune" and do
not know it, you become a mighty
tiresOme parsonage and as you go
along the streets meeting people you
know, many of them long for the
time for the hearse to go by with all
that is earthly of you in it. Get lit
tie change in your thinking and act
ing Or move to other fields.
You may not know it, but few of
your ideas and opinions are original.
You may think they are, and con-
graduate yourself on your original
thinking, but candidly we met those
thoughts you were handing out so
glibly to the hoi polloi,' and were be-
ing SO eagerly relieved by the hobble-
| de-hOys, in one of the school journals
published in 1897. Remember the best
thinkers never have more than five
| original thoughts duringa life time,
and the most of US spend our days
with the headache trying to think
these five original ideas
| This is a day of physical testing.
Many a young man thought himself
physically fit until the medical board
placed a mark of physically unfit
upon him. In larger sense the moral
and intellectual testing is going on.
If you will think about it, you can
readily read your own markings and
estimate your grading. A man takes
his place in society according to his
moral and intellectual worth.
Real men refuse all victory and
promotion at the price of honor. They
! prefer and honest defeat to a ques-
tionabe success.
/ Here is a little preachment to con-
slider: if you are lacking in true
courage, clear grit and strong men
tality-if you have a moral twist OF
an ethical warp, and are short in vi
tai impulse for attainment; these are
not bred in your deeper self, if they
are not surging through your blood
all OF your ancestral past; and all OF
the class legislation that can be Sc.
cured for you; and all the preferen.
t1aI diplomas you may secure viii
never be able to hold you up and
make the man you "would be" out OF
you.