ERHAPS you think I ask a strange question
when I ask, “Should we think?” You say
that of course we are to think. That is
why God gave us minds. But how many
today do really think? I look in the
dictionary for a definition of the word.
It is defined as to ponder, contemplate, meditate.
So much of the thinking of today is superficial! The
great mass of people just skim the surface. How few
there are who think through to a principle! How few
penetrate with the mind to the depth of a problem
or a situation!
This is a day of education. We are spending
thousands of dollars annually for school buildings,
school books, and school teachers. It has not been
so long since the one who mastered ‘“the three R’s”’
had a good education. The song says, ‘‘ Reading,
and ’riting, and ’rithmetic, taught to the tune of the
hickory stick.” Later it became necessary to get
a high-school education. Then the age began to
demand a college degree, and now to be really edu-
cated a university education is thought necessary.
Added to the enormous direct expenditure for
education are the thousands of dollars that are
being spent for library buildings and books. These
libraries have been opened free to the public.
All of these factors, coupled with the multiplicity
of magazines and newspapers, serve to make this a
reading age. It is a day of knowledge. It meets the
very specifications of the prophecy recorded in
Daniel 12: 4 that in “the time of the end, many shall
run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
After all has been truthfully said about this being
an age of knowledge, how many today really think
until they have dug beneath the surface and reached
By Ewing Galloway, N.Y.
What Do
You Think?
Qurs is an age of thinkers and thinking. But only
thinking will not save our civilization nor our
souls. Make a mental check-up with the writer
of this article
By Robert L. Boothby
the foundation principle? There are some great
thinkers living today, but what about the mass of
people?
This is a fast age. Nahum 2: 3-5 characterizes it
as a lightning age. The prophet said: “The chariots
shall be with flaming torches in the day of His
preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall
jostle one against another in the broad ways: they
shall seem like torches, they shall run like the light-
nings.” Everything is speeding up. Civilization is
riding at breakneck speed on tense and quivering
nerves. Mankind is driving on with a vengeance. A
speed record is made today only to be eclipsed by a
more rapid pace tomorrow. Men rush to and fro,
hither and thither, at a tremendous speed.
Speed characterizes not only travel but every
Creat libraries, traveling and otherwise, are directing the thoughts of American youth
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