Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Men and Their Weaknessess. [ARTICLE]

Men and Their Weaknessess.

Mankind is pron? to the twin we knesses of carelessness and neglect—out of which grow vices many, and failures and falsehood and like mutionus errors, which make much of earth’s misery. Care’e-sness is an insidious evil which in time, wiT engender other bad hab ts and including actual vice eventually. Neglect tends to poverty and slothful depravity. Men are naturally lazy—aye, trie

it is—and inclined to sorter bustle and stress alone. If environment permits, most of us will g adually but inevitably put off respansibili y and dodge duty—be careless of some things and neglectful of others, until lethargy becomes a fixed purpose without real merit, but through natural inclination. And the sluggard Is a degenerate, no less —mentally and morally, depending upon dgne of character which hag leen undermined. Don’t grow careless of duties or obligation, brother—don’t neglect any essential detail. It is sin—unpardonable, and Involving penalties plus.—Sagebrush Philosophy.