Character

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 35, Issue 4, 1 June 1944, Page 5

Character

« Character is the result of conscious effort from day to day. The which you most desire in the depths of your inmost heart is the plan by which you shape your character, building. Set your affection on things which are base and unworthy and your character becomes a wall of unlovely type. Set your affection on things above, on the unseen values of eternity, on truth and light and justice, and the built-up wall of your character will proceed along '. the right lines. The stones which enter into that wall are thought's and words and deeds. As a wise and skilful builder rejects some of the stones that are brought to him as unfit to have a place in his building, so you ought often to many a thought that is suggested, to^ refrain from repeating much that us told you, and to abstain from many deeds which, by the thoughtless and profane, are performed to our knowledge every day. Good: character in man is not' a wild and natural growth — it is onlydeveloped under careful discipline. The standard of righteousness is as unvarying as the plumb. Virtue is as exact as the angle of a square. Our determination to be good must be as continuous, and* unbroken as the level line which stretches far beyond the bounds of space to the realms of eternity. Let no one suppose that it does not matter what he believes, or how he speaks, or what he does; for - thoughts, words and deeds are the building " material of his character." — "Masonic Home Journal." ■ ,■ .