"How To Develop Positive Thinking, Right and Wrong Thinking & Their Results..."

It is an accepted fact that nothing can exist which is wholly evil or entirely separated from good.

There was never a person who did not have some good qualities or who did not do some good deeds; nor ever a thing, however much it might be out of place, that did not have somewhat of good in it or closely connected with it.

Then the search for the good, if diligent and faithful, need never be in vain; and when found, it ought to be well and carefully treasured.

With this habit fully established, error thoughts will seldom intrude. Steadfastly "Look for the good in thine enemy."

The fact that good and bad are often close together, and that there is never anything wholly bad, is well illustrated in the answer of the member of the kirk, who had been charged with saying good things of the devil -- an unpardonable sin in the eyes of those valiant old Scotch Presbyterians of former days.

Her answer and her defense was: " Ah weel, mon, 'twere vera gude for a' the members o' the kirk if they had his persistence."

The search for the good should be undertaken for its own sake alone, and not with any ulterior or secondary object in view.

The one purpose should always be kept fully to the front. If this search for the good is prosecuted with the desire to secure through it some other advantage, that second object should be dropped out of the mind because its presence will tend strongly toward defeat.

This is because the action of the mind will be divided by the pursuit of two objects and neither will receive its whole attention, consequently each will fall short of its rightful result.

The hunter cannot aim his rifle at two different objects at the same time with any serious expectation of hitting either.