The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-10-26

longer, than what
goes into your "a
mouth. What you i,
eat can kin YOU
your body, that is; ~.
but what you think,
what you read. what you hear. can
kill your mind. II can even kill your
soul. You can afford to be particu'
lar Down at the Cracked Cup Cafe
they give you no choice. If you
don't like the soc dinner you can
walk out; and If you are at all par
ticular you will walk out. But at
the best restaurants you are offered
a wide choice, and the experienced
diner-out will read the menu care
fully before ordering.
Are you a Christian? Then
don't feed your mind at the men
tai equivalent of the Cracked
Cup Cafe. Go to a better spot.
The beauty Of food for the mind
Is that the best costs no more.
The best foods for the table are
rather expensive; the best
mind-foods, soul-foods, are not.
Ear Gate
rs WHAT you listen to. good for
4 your mind? What's your intake.
by ear? A woman who had roomed
in another woman's house for some
time was looking for new place.
Her old room was inexpensive. sun
ny. convenient, clean; there was
nothing wrong with the room. But
she had to listen to the landlady ev-
cry day.. and from her she never
heard good of any one.
"H stay there any longer
I shall go crazy" the roomer
confided to friend. "SheIl get
me to thinking the way she does.
and she thinks everybody's q
crook"
In Tennyson's "Idyls of the King"
Is that fine rule of the Round Table:
ITO speak no SANDER = no. nor
listen to it /" Listening to SLAM
der, trash, mean. and malicious
gossip, day after day, is bound to
have a serious effect on any ones
mind.
Eye-Gate
THE STRANGE thing is that
= Christians can be seen taking
the greatest of pains picking out the
right food for their dogs and cats.
and yet never exercising the least
choice in what comes into their
minds by ear or eye. They will let
the radio run on hour after hour,
they look at whatever the television
puts on the screen, the dirty with
the clean, the trash with the Jewels
df any. They read the newspapers
from front to back, or vice versa,
they read all the comics whether
they are amusing or not. But when
1t comes to picking out something
good for their minds. really going
to the trouble of selection, and pay
ing out folding money for it, how
many. even Christian people, will
do it?
1t would be interesting to COM
pare what most people spend on
quite unnecessary stuff like soft
drinks and cigarettes, with what
they spend for books in years
time. Would you like to sit down
with . great and good man or
woman and let him talk to you
BY the hour, to give you the best
OF his mind and heart? It can
slways be dOne-with q good
book. Not, usually, the best sell
ers!
An intelligent Christian woman
recently had to move almost a
thousand miles; when you move
that far and have to pay by the
pound for what you take. you screen
your stuff pretty carefully. 81 am
throwing away all my best sellers"
she said. There's not a one worth
wasting freight on, She was right
about most best-sellers. But the old
time, longtime, all-time best seller
OF them all is the Christian Bible.
Is Your Mind Vacant Lot?
IT is MORE than question of
what you read and see and hear.
An even more serious question is:
What do you think about? Good
reading, even the Bible, was nsver
meant to be substitute for thought.
One Of the great books Of ancient
times was Consultations of PhiIoso-
ply" written by man in jail with
out a book in his cell. But the fine
books he had read were In his head
and heart, and when he became
political prisoner. alone and poor
and friendless. his mind was still
garden. What is your mia3.-a
garden. or a desert. or only q va
cant lot Uttered with junk?
I. .fCeDyrigAt By tire International oasn.
~ Ct Religions Edueatien on behalf Of
- Eseteetant lsnsmlnations. Releas