Excerpt from The Values Everlasting: Some Aids to Lift, Our Hearts on High
A Flood of worldly thoughts, worldly ideas and estimates invade the mind nowadays on the wings of the ephemeral print which is so insistently circulated by powerful agencies everywhere. We must read, and so much of the reading matter that is forced upon our attention, teaches insidiously the low values and sordid outlook of the worldling, forever intent on the things of time and quite forgetful of the great issues of eternity.
To protect ourselves from the contagion of this pervading worldliness, we should, in justice to our own soul, turn deliberately aside now and then to dwell upon the values everlasting. As men of old used, when passing through contagious plague spots, to hold to their nostrils a sweet smelling flower, to guard themselves from the infection, so we should hold to the nostrils of our soul the sweet flower of some heavenly thoughts, to guard against the poisonous exhalations of the world.
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