The Washington times., 1925-03-04
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
b poCToR FRANK CRANE.
Virtue Unconscious

WWWHE best virtue unconscious.
When we do q good deed and expect reward for
- it and call for people to and look at It, or even
regard ourselves with compacence its quality has been
somewhat diluted
Honesty may be the best policy but the honest
because is the best policy quite honest We do not
know whether he would be honest with himself when ne IS
alone
The right of doing good been described by
Marcus Aureus BE that who does good in the
best manner does not know what he has DONE but
he is like which has produced grapes and seeks for
nothing after it has produced its proper fruit
game bee when it has made its honey SO man, when he
has done good act does not call for others to and
see but goes to another act goes to again
produce grapes In its season"
Virtue is so sublime that it need no advan
tageous aids It for this that cannot be paid
for doing good and while virtue has great value it has
The only way to do good because you help it.
because your nature such that produce only good
This is the goodness Of the good.
The goodness the bad is something that put for
occasion It is borrowed and artificial and does not have
the effect Of goodness that is real and genuine
There is only way to do good all OF the lme and
that is be good When automatically rejects
evil impulses and responds those which good when
his every act is prompted by worthy motive such
has right to estimate himself good although he probably
does not think of it.
such character that you unconscouy produce that which
is helpful and beneficial to them.
All goodness that conscious is of value only trains
us for the unconscious kind.
This probably what is meant when is said that for
every idle word man speaks he shall give in the
say, but what speak with no purpose at all and
from pure idenes revelation Of what ourselves
As Marcus Aureus says further Art thou not content
thou hast done something comfortable to thy nature
and dost thou seek to be paid for it. just the eye de-
manded a recompense for walking2'
The only really good therefore who good for
the pleasure of it. Virtue indeed its only reward just
the eye is happies seeing the feet when walking
This not be taken attempt to mnify the benefit
Of trying do something which you convinced is right
but to which you not disposed For it is only by
constant attempt to do good that the desire to do good
becomes automatic good disposition, you
the silt Of good deeds is the result Of having done good
and
It is said In Holy Writ that Whosoever will do these
ngs of mine, he shall be ikened to who built his
house upon rock This does not that the sayings
rock that the Master Himself is rock but that
which the rock is the fact of having long praccd
doing good. Character rests upon practice.
But the end is attained only when practice has been
nued long that it becomes automatic, that has, to
speak, fed down into the desires and become unconscious
It is for this that the best quality of goodness
unconscious Indeed the aim and end of all goodness
become unconscious and is found that the most worthy
characters and the most dependable the most unconscious
Of their virtue.