Character Determines Everything
WHAT a subtle something is character, and yet how real it is! We recognize the fact that there is in man something back of his acts, determining them, making them what they are. An act in itself has no particular character. We look back of acts to motives to determine character. You strike a blow in anger, or you strike a blow in self-defense. We condemn one act; we justify the other. Why? Because back of the act was something leading to it and occasioning it. In the one case this something was bad, in the other, good. It is this something in every man which we call purpose, ruling-love, character. It is really the man. We judge something of what his acts in the future will be by what we know of his character. On character everything turns.—Illustrated Christian Weekly.