Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-23 | Page 4 | Truth from Mrs, Besant

TRUTH MRS BESA T We 0 cannot say that we believe great greatly ly in the efficacy of at sonic Iome ot of tho doe doc trinen ot of theos theosophy phy Man lan of at them we tall fall to grasp some rome of them ale ao philosophical facts pushed to extremes they fall fail to apply appl but bul some somo of oC them are trul truly excellent Hero HeN Is one ot of the tho last named sort from the talent talented ed pen of at the able expounder ot of that sect or organIzation Mrs Besant says How shall a man hImself Into purity By In his morninG meditation taking purIty as part parl of at the tho subject on which he thinks realizing what It means No ot of thought must ever t touch l hinc no impurity O of action I Ithe nl iu must t stain 1 him lie must be puro in the tim threefold thread ot of action Uon word and thought In the morning Ice he thinks of oC purity as IL a thinS thing that Is that hat ho he must accomplish and when ho goes out Into the world ho ha carries the tho memory of at his meditation with him lie He watches hi his actions ho allows no Impure action to stain his body He speaks no word that is III Impure lie ho makes no reference In his talk to nn en unclean subject he novel clover permits his hi tongue to be soiled Oiled by making an un unclean unclean clean suggestion Those These truths from Mrs Besant merit especial attention from all tho th guard guardIans tans Ians of at youth In our city tOday In Iii of at the alliance between tho City authorities and tho legalized vico can cen centered hired on the west side every ver man should bear such thoughts as these theS In memory We teach more by what whal wo we think and by what we truly are oro than by what we cay eay That Thal much at al least lit In thee thoo doctrine la hi true Influence is Involuntary It Il escapes from lL a person In spite ot of his own efforts to repress h It A good man though he keeps silent stIll wields an for Cor good An Immoral man In spite men even ot of good In Intentions intentions honest attempts to cato cata virtue r all ally disseminates Im immorality morality For their I sanctify myself were the words or of deep truth and mean log Ing spoken by the Exemplar of oC human virtue For tico tho sake sako of his sons Ions hIs companions a 11 man may well sack seele to purity purify himself even cen though he might otherwise tend to regard his own coi duct less seriousness I It Is D a time for every true truo man to do dohis dolila lila his dut duty and the most effective though by no moans the tho only way Is isto I to begin with himself