No Bad Habit Broken To-Morrow.
WHY should men delay to break any bad habit? they all know that it grows stronger by each repetition. Nothing is more foolish than to say, “I know I ought to stop, and I will next New Year's day.” The man who cannot stop to-day cannot to-morrow. The drunkard never reforms to-morrow; the spendthrift never saves to-morrow. The boaster who says, “I can if I will,” is the one who cannot will, and therefore never does. There is but one remedy for a bad habit, and that is to stop the thing now. He who says, “I will not do it for three months,” is not grappling the habit at all. He only fights the battle who says, “Never more; the thing is wrong.” The only infallible cure for an absorbing bad habit is to put an absorbing good one in its place. A love of bad company is not cured by no company, but by good company; bad reading gives way, not to no reading, but to good reading. Dissipated men must become earnest Christians, not mere professors, to make their reformation sure.—Sel.