Show rare in heart alm almost oat every one appreciates the duty of governing the tongue although few people dwell upon the necessity of controlling the thoughts right speaking is a recognized duty but right thinking h is too often classed among tile the impossibilities of life it may bo be wicked to feel so fco but I 1 cant help my thoughts apologetically says some detractor tile excuse is a generally accepted one but it lias has not sufficient foundation in fact isolated thoughts cannot always be controlled they flash into the mind like obstinate sprites and the more one fixes the attention upon them in ia disapproval tile the more impossible does it become to expel them it is however within the limits of human ili effort to control tha ali tendency of the thoughts when a malicious or frivolous member of the tribe starts into being they can ban bo be best combated not by out and out lighting fighting but by turning instantly to another class of valuable and interesting reflection the mind may be so thoroughly disciplined that its thoughts shall bo be drilled battalions of soldiers they will doubtless be always raw troops not marching according to strict military rule and not in all cases sure to obey upon the moment but they will steadily improve with practice conforming themselves more and more to the true and the good Phy physiologists biologists have a great deal to say about the force of habit dispose the brain toward a I 1 certain line of thought 0 and it will keep it with increasing steadiness for purely physical reasons it has ins its automatic action as the fingers have theirs when they so accustom themselves to seeking the key keys s of the piano that they find them without the aid of the eyes the discipline of the thoughts contributes to the intellectual as well as moral development there are in all lives unoccupied intervale inter vali of time when one is riding to and from his place of business or taking his constitutional for example he cannot read or study to advantage at such moments but instead cf letting the mind drift whither it will ile he can call fix it upon the last poem lie has read or upon some truth from an author of value youths hii companion |