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Title: Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Chalk-talks Moral education Religious education
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Meigs Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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(Draw Fig. 52, complete.) But there is another type of man whose character we can wellillustrate by changing the lines in this first portrait. (With the broadside of your black crayon make the changes needed to produce Fig.53. Shade the face with a light touch of the broad side of the cray-on.) He is a dishonest man—he is willing to risk his life in takingfrom us that which does not belong to him. Do we welcome such aman to our homes? No. The hand of every man is against a thiefand a robber. He is an outcast. The law seeks to protect us fromhim by putting him in prison if he can be caught. I know that we agree that we should be very careful about thekind of people whom we welcome to our homes. But, nevertheless thehand of forgiveness and uplift should be extended to every repentantsinner, for Christ has so taught us. But if we should be so carefulabout the people whom we admit into our homes, why should we notbe still more careful about those other visitors—our thoughts—when 88
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89 we admit them to our minds? Did you ever think of your thoughts adyour visitors? No, I suppose not; but we are going to consider themas visitors today. Ah, here comes a nice-looking thought that wants to enter intoyour head. Fortunately, you have a faithful servant who answers thedoorbell every time a visitor comes. It is your Conscience, and if it iswell trained, it will admit to your mind only the pure thoughts, andit will slam the door in the face of all harmful intruders. But, alas!we are the master of the house and sometimes when Conscience wouldclose the door to an unholy thought, we tell the servant to step aside,and we admit the visitor. It is a shame! And the worst of it is thatConscience, like an obedient servant, finally lets us have our own wayand then we have thrust out our best friend! Here is a boy who has lagged behind in his school work. Anice-looking little thought comes along and says, Why not cheat justa little? No one would know anything about it. In a jiffy. C

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