A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

THINK? ■■

I nr.M\ ! C'iin yon? Do you ? Dare you.-' Arc* you sure your opinion is your • >\vn on religion, politics, or morals? Dr are you merely keeping step with tin? regiment. Perhaps you don’t think that it tokos courage to think. Hut think about it, and you re ill. You will find, too, that it takes greator courage to keep on thinking when you begin, and that to live wbat you think takes a real measure ol heroism, for there are thousands ol loes lying in wait to crush the i liinkor-—foes both without and within.

The foes without are powerful, the dies within are well-nigh invincible unless you have courage. Stored away in our minds are accumulations ol tallacics concerning ourselves and concerning the people and things we know. Ihe moment we begin to think honest |y. I rankly, clearly, all these wraithItem the past—the beliefs of ntn parents, teachers, friends, and assort ales—arise and xav to us, “ Oidv a-

you think as we thought can you be right. Depart from our conclusions amt you are in d tuegrnus waters. You are like a mariner on an uncharted course, and you will surely strike the rocks and he engulfed ! ” It. lakes courage to think yourseL out ot all this. Do you dare? I'liis iwhere courage is necessary—real coin-

age—and this is where von come inor ought, to. Do you (.[are to dmiht the infaliihilit of your past, guides, parents, an teachers ?

Arc you hrnvc enough to examine I .lie world and ail Unit’s in it wilhm.t reference to wlmt anybody thinks. 01 has thought, about it? Do you dare to abandon what you think is false for that which you think is true—for an opinion which is real!; votir own ?

.won’t think your opinion is of m value; every man's opinion is wort I something, if it is really his opinion.

All those who have done a real I;, worth-while service in this world haw dared to ca.-l aside pi-, judi: e lor principle, and to hi* considered ,l queer.’ iif need he. for the sake of an idea.

Dare to have your own opinion about every matter of human iinpon mice, and for your sake and our sale see to it that your opinion is real-:; based on voiir own thinking.

The independent thinkers are tin I.ridge-builders ol this world. lln \ build the bridges over which the gen orations pass onward and forward am' upward to uohled concepts of lite. fo: thinking lights up the dark rthyswhere ignore lire gropes and stumble and it reveals to us heaurics helerc ungues,-cd. So when you begin to Hunk your own thoughts, get ready lor a grim light—a worth-while tight—a ludagainst the foes within you lioldum von down, and the foes without yo: holding you hack, and all the otic’: foes surrounding you, which chalh-ngi you to do your own thinking. Think your own thoughts, even r you stand alone. All the great onedid. □are to think ! _M. PRESTON STAN BUY.