Importance of Our Habits
By De Witt L. Pelton
OUR virtues are habits as much as our vices. Honor, courage, purity, punctuality, prayer, and kindness are habits as much as are swearing, drunkenness, and lying. When this truth is once perceived, it makes a revolution in conduct. Morality, with many, consists in trying to correct evil habits rather than in striving to form good ones. Human life is largely automatic. We are in reality “walking bundles of habits.” To each sort of impression we have an automatic, ready-made response. The sort of habits we are forming is therefore of the greatest importance; and we are forming habits of some kind whether we attend to them or not. We should strive, therefore, to acquire such habits as will strengthen and improve our natures.—Rev. De Witt L., Pelton.