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Till': POWER 0.' H.-\BIT. fj~
2. \V c shall do well to con~ider the amazing
GtTt1jgtA of habit..
UFiOis said to be a sccond nature. '''hat a
man gets accustomeu to, let its influence be
goou or bad, he finu:I it very difficult to abandon.
\\'"ccnn heml or twist a twig to whatever
shape we please, but let that twig become a
tree, and it require:; the force of n. whirlwinu
to nproot it. It is ono thing for n. child to form
the habit of prayer and reading tbe Scriptures,
and quite another thing for the lUall of gray
hairs to uo w. The son may keep from the
incbri(tting cup; but no one can tell what
dreadful struggles it will cost his father to dash
it to the grouud.
Few are thoroughly aware of the c..'Outrolling
powpr of Ilnbit. It is posoiLle to ~uperjnduce
upon the Least.s of the field, and the fow]:; of
the air, hnl1it~entirely forcign to their nature;
and yet tll(~sehabits when thus superinuueeJ
can Rcart:dy be broken. The procc&'!is tedioIL