Chicago now has its sensation in the trial of sausage-maker Luetgert, for the murder of his wife, and the morbid element of the reading public will devour the details, little thinking of the possible injury to themselves of holding in thought, such unhealthful mind pictures. The Biblical declaration that as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he" — which is doubtless more literally true than humanity admits — is a constant admonition to a careful discrimination as to the mental food of which we daily partake. And it is generally accepted as a fact that the mind largely affects the body as well as the morals of mankind, and if this be true, it can readily be seen that it is not at all improbable that what one indulges mentally, day after day, may find some expression upon the physique as well as upon one's spiritual nature, and may it not be that the universal complaint as to physical ailments finds its origin, in part at least, in the unwholesome quality of that which we admit within the portals of our thought? It is a large consideration, then, as to how a person's mind and body are cared for when we are providing mental food, and we are persuaded that none will question that pure, uplifting thought — the result of good reading — is far safer in every way than the morbid conditions that ensue from an opposite course.
Norfolk Ledger.
