Do You Have Good Habits?

Crutches For By And By

“My young friend, you are fashioning a crutch for by and by,” said a college professor to one of his students, who was forming the bad habit of using dishonest helps in doing his work. “The time will come when you will find you cannot wallk without it. The result of such methods is to make one incapable, in the end, of doing an honest and thorough piece of work, for himself or anyone else.”

What the professor said was true and just. Every bad habit we form is a crutch for the future. It enfeebles us by depriving us of the power to do right. The dishonest job is a crutch, a poor makeshift for right and fair dealing with others. As the habit of dishonest work grows upon us, we lose the power to walk with vigorous uprightness in the pathway of human service.

So it is with every bad habit. It takes away our capability for living rightly. The evil personal habit in time makes us incapable of living normally. With what a wretched crutch the drunkard, for example, has to hobble through life! How he literally chains himself to it! And what a pitiful spectacle he makes in his abject slavery to it!

Crutches for by and by, yes, that is just what our bad habits are. Do we realizee how surely and tyrannously they make moral, as well as physical cripples of us?

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