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Show CONVICTIONS ARE OF VALUE. Must Be Planted Deep If They Are to Hold and Influence. Nobody who Is endowed with n good mind and wants to live to his satisfaction satis-faction can afford to neglect the acquirement ac-quirement of convictions, says Edward S. Martin In the Metropolitan. What aro they? They ought to be opinions based on knowledgo and definitely thought out. Practically they como In various ways often by inheritance or as tho result of early training; sometimes by association, sometimes from the automatic working of the mind during long periods when it Is acquiring and sifting knowledge and experience. Sometimes, again, convictions con-victions seem to come suddenly, especially espe-cially religious convictions, though there is usually a long process ot preparatory pre-paratory thought behind them, nnd it Is really only tho final conclusion that is sudden. Deep convictions on any subject don't como ready-made. Ono has to work for them; to earn them. If they are to hold and to Influence ! conduct, they must he planted deep. |
