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Speaker 1: Light on disposition. I cannot help it. It is my disposition.

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How often one hears this expression as an excuse for

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wrong doing, What does it imply? This that the person

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who utters it believes that he has no choke in

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the matter, that he cannot alter his character. He believes

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that he must go on doing the wrong thing to

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the end of his days because he was born so,

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or because his father or grandfather was like that, or

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if not these, then some one along the family line

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a hundred or two or three hundred years ago must

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have been afflicted, and therefore he is and must remain so.

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Such a belief should be uprooted, destroyed, and cast away,

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for it is not only without reason, it is a

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complete barrier to all progress, to all growth and goodness,

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to all development of character and noble expansion of life.

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Character is not permanent. It is indeed one of the

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most changeable things in nature. If not changed by a

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conscious act of the will, it is being continually modified

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and reformed by the pressure of circumstances. Disposition is not fixed,

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except in so far as one fixes it by continuing

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to do the same thing, and by persistence in the

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stubborn belief that he cannot help it. As soon as

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one gets rid of that belief, he will find that

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he can help it. Further. He will find that intelligence

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and will are instruments which can mold disposition to any extent,

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and that too with considerable rapidity. If one is in earnest,

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what is disposition but a habit formed by repeating the

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same thing over and over again. Cease repeating doing the

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same thing, and lo, the disposition is changed. The character

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is altered to cease from an old head. Habit of

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thought or action is I know, difficult at first, but

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with each added effort, the difficulty decreases and finally disappears.

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And then the new and good habit is formed, and

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the disposition is changed from bad to good. The character

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is ennobled, the mind is delivered from the torment and

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is lifted into joy. There is no need for any

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one to remain the slave of a disposition which causes

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him unhappiness and which he himself regards as undesirable. He

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can abandon it, He can break away from the slavery.

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He can deliver himself and be free.