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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 

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Chapter 2

The Best Time For Reading

 


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THE morning, or at least early in the day, is the most suitable time, so far as profitableness is concerned. The mind is more free to receive impressions then than when the business of the day is in full swing. At a later period, the mind is generally too pre-occupied to give it that close attention which is necessary. And again there is this advantage in reading early in the day, that the mind is sustained throughout the day's occupation by the impetus received from the reading. The duties of some may not admit of morning reading. Each must wisely determine for herself at what time of the day she can best secure the benefit. Once the practice is begun, it is necessary to persevere. For this some determination is necessary. Put not off your reading to a time when, from preoccupation or weariness, your mind is unfitted to profit by the exercise. It may not be always practicable for the married sister to secure her reading at the same time or hour of the day; still, if she persevere in the attempt, even in spite of hindrances -- the presence of little ones not excepted -- she will be astonished at what she can accomplish, and will surely secure the prize, and reap enduring benefit.

Unfavourable circumstances may be turned to excellent account in this way. It has not infrequently happened that a mother with a young infant has secured more opportunities for reading, than under ordinary circumstances, because she has snatched her book whenever she sat down to suckle her baby, and so availed herself of an opportunity to increase her knowledge which might not otherwise have presented itself, and which is overlooked or thought impossible by many. As her family increases, her ingenuity in this matter will be brought into play. She will devise ways and means for continuing this most indispensable aid to sustenance in the path of life. Persevering in it, she will the more and more easily continue to secure the privilege of reading, because, as time goes on, she will learn to prize it above all price, and to regard it as a thing as necessary as daily food. She will find herself trained at last, to forego something else rather than lose her reading. -Jane Roberts

 


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