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Show CONVICTIONS AS MORAL ANCHORS. ANCH-ORS. Men as they average are not only tenacious in their political Convictions, but they are proud of them and hold them sacred. If moral cvonvictions .lie back of the political convictions, nil is a sit should be. But moral convictions are often treated with levity, ar. though they were whimsical or else grounded upon bigotry. No biography has been written of that certain boy who landed in a strange city bent. upon getting on honest living and was met with the cynical advice that he would not have any competition. If his resolution was born of some copy book motto he probably prob-ably adapted his morals to his environment environ-ment after a brief wrestle with luck. But boys who are born with sentimental senti-mental convictions rooted in their very fiber and cling to them write their own biographies by the footprints along their careers. Convictions are anchors, and they never let go their hold. Men let go of them to their sorrow, swapping swap-ping bread for husks in the deal. Much of the melancholy and despondency of life come from ignoring the calls, of early convictions. The soul's first convictions con-victions are often if not always, its truest guides. In nature every creature crea-ture must have its proper element, as water, air, jungle or prairie. So the young soul recognizes that spiritual element in which it can find fullest expression. ex-pression. Wherever age holds firm grasp on youth's convictions there is manhood's strength. Home Journal and News. I |