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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 28, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 53.

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What of Our Thoughts?

By Mrs. Edna G. Clemens

EVERY act is the consummation of a thought; and you say, “Thoughts are the cheapest things in the world. Like necessity, they come to us unbidden, unsought, unwanted, and uncontrolled.” Yet they are the foundation of man.
They rule all good. They control all evil. They make all the money in the world, and create all joy and all sorrow. Are they the cheapest things in the world? Are they? I say they are beyond price, the most expensive luxury of man.
When starting out on that road of perpetual motion called life, the greatest capital and the greatest inheritance one can have are thoughts of which one is not ashamed. O mothers of men, when that little body, flesh of your flesh, is nestled in your arms, what thoughts are you transmitting? What acts are you constructing? — Mrs. Edna G. Clemens.