The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-05-27
The Importance Of Example
in Child Training

TRYING SOMETHING, giving Il j
chance TO PROVE ITSELF. One Of
the most universal Of these PRINCIPLES.
and peculiarly applicable to the type
OF activity mostly manifested to-day is
this: "Whosoever would be the chief
among you, let him be your servant. y
We, in this Colony, believe in a life
OF mutual service. and we have the
faith to put the maxim Of the Nazarene
as quoted BY Henry Ford, to the test.
The blind faith, taught by many meta
physicians, does not fill the bill for the
colonists, because it would reduce us
to the animal plane of life. The ami
nal trusts implicitly" has absolute
faith is guidsd BY instinct, God, OIL
Mature, it follows the pgomptings of its
appetlteS and passions without worry
ing about right or wrong. 1t acts to-
day as it did thousands of years ago.
In man, reason has taken the place
OF instinct; we must think. plan, esti-
mate, and manage for ourselves. We
are. thrown on cur own responsibility.
10 deny TINS, undermines the very foun-
cation ot equity, reciprocity, justice,
and right. 1t is up to us to use every
talent with which we have been endow-
ed by the creator, to study all the laws
of our being and to observe them in ev-
cry particular to the best of our abiI-
ity, SO that enlightened reason may
take the place of animal propensities
and guide us to physical, mental and
moral perfection.
Obedience to all natural laws on all
planes of being depends in the first
place on self-control. In a way, self
control is therefore the whole law, .
for one cannot break a single law I'M
less he first breaks this FUNDAMEN-
TAI LAW OF ALL LAWS" This
shows that the demoralizing effect of
SHINING (acting enormously, by either
harming oneself or any other person)
in any particular on any one of the
planes of being, does not SO much de-
pend upon the enormity of the deed as
upon the loss of self-control. Continu-
Gus weakening of self-controI in triv-
lal things may, therefore, in the end,
prove more destructive than a murder
committed in the heat of passion. If
there is not self-control enough to re-
5lst a cup of coffee or a cigar, whence
shall come the will-power to resist
greater temptations. Trulyslack of
in small things is the dry
lot of the soul.
DR.. Lindlahr in his Mature Cure"
Jays:
To believe that God, or Nature, will
overcome the natural effects of our ig-
laziness, and viciousness by
signs and metaphysics, or to
ieny the existence of sickness, wrong
long and suffering, must inevitably
cad to intellectual and moral stagna-
ion and degeneration. am a thor
ugh and consistent optimist and New
'hought enthusiast, but | do not over
ook the fact that in this, as in every
hing else, there turks always the dan
er Of overriding and exaggerating viz
ue into fault"
The scientific way of rational inquiry
nd experimentation has pointed the
,ay and as Alex Young says in the
Truth Seeker:
There is only one cure for the ills
f society. and that is through the CO.
perative or production-for-use system,
he common-sense basic principle of
the only system that can de-
elop the best incentive in the human
ace, real intelligent comradeship."