(2). But it belongs even more to the glory of man and of God that the mind should be straight, that a man should be alive and answerable to truth, not stooping to subterfuge or self-excusing, that he should not duck when he sees truth coming and then complain that it is over his head. Dr. Grenfell, the heroic doctor of Labrador tells how once he was steaming down the coast in haste to get south, when a boat was seen full in his course and he was signalled by the only occupant. Thinking it a serious surgical case Grenfell stopped the ship, but an old man climbed aboard, raised his cap and said, ''Doctor, have you got anything for me to read." Grenfell was very angry at first, but changed his mind when he asked himself the question whether it was more charitable to repair a man's bodily injury if he had one or to supply him with books if he had none. There is that side of us that tends to get crooked and needs to be straightened. But it is often overlooked. As the monks depreciated the body, so the friars depreciated the mind. And they deteriorated rapidly. They were a godsend to Europe in the 12th century, but a scandal in the 14th.
To neglect our powers of thought for God is to destroy our powers of service for God. And there is temptation on every side.
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