better method of cultivation and the use of better adapted varieties of cotton proved so successful that Texas farmers now, following the methods worked out by the department investigators, again raise their magnificent crops of cotton, in spite of the boll weevil.—The Evening Post.
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SUCCESS FROM LABOR
"Paradise Lost" was finished in 1665, after
seven years' labor in darkness. With great
difficulty Milton found a publisher, and for
the great work, now the most honored poem
in our literature, he received less than certain
verse-makers of our day receive for a little
song in one of our popular magazines. Its
success was immediate, tho, like all his work,
it met with venomous criticism.
The work stamped him as one of the world's great writers, and from England and the Continent pilgrims came in increasing numbers to speak their gratitude.—William J. Long, "English Literature."
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SUCCESS IN FAILURE
Success Magazine appropriately publishes these lines:
There is no failure. God's immortal plan
Accounts no loss a lesson learned for man.
Defeat is oft the discipline we need
To save us from the wrong, or teaching heed
To errors which would else more dearly cost—
A lesson learned is ne'er a battle lost.
Whene'er the cause is right, be not afraid;
Defeat is then but victory delayed—
And e'en the greatest vic'tries of the world
Are often won when battle-flags are furled.
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See Failure Leading to Success.
SUCCESS INSPIRES CONFIDENCE
Because Paul Armstrong in five days
wrote "Alias Jimmy Valentine," a New
York success, another play, as yet unread by
Liebler & Co., has been accepted by that firm.
The exact conversation confirming this business
deal is worthy of recording because of
the brevity of it. Mr. Armstrong called at
the office of the managers just as Mr. George
C. Tyler, the managing editor, was getting
ready to leave for Rochester, where "A Certain
Party" was to open.
"I have written a play," said Mr. Armstrong.
"What is it called?" asked Mr. Tyler.
"It has no name," said the author.
"How long did it take you to write it?" asked Mr. Tyler.
"Four days," said Mr. Armstrong. "I wrote it in a day's less time than 'Jimmy Valentine.'"
"I'll accept it," said Mr. Tyler, and shook hands on the bargain.—Philadelphia Enquirer.
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SUCCESS TOO DEAR
Judge Baldwin, of Indiana, it is said, in
giving his advice to lawyers upon one occasion,
told them that the course to be pursued
by a lawyer was first to get on, second
to get honor, and third to get honest. A
man who follows that policy, in my judgment,
is not such a lawyer as should be let
loose in politics. (Text.)—George M.
Palmer.
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Success, Ultimate—See Experiment.
SUFFERING
Oberlin, the illustrious pastor of the Ban de la Roche, used the following figure in comforting the sorrow of an afflicted lady:
Dear madam, I have now before me two
stones; they are alike in color, they are of
the same water, clear, pure and clean. But
there is a great difference between them;
one has a dazzling brightness, the other is
quite dull. What is the reason of this difference?
The one has been carefully cut,
the other hardly touched. Now, had these
stones been endowed with life, so as to have
been capable of feeling what they underwent,
the one which had received eighty cuts would
have thought itself very unhappy, and would
have envied the fate of the other, which,
having received but eight, had undergone
but a tenth part of its own sufferings. Yet
the stone which had suffered little is dim
and lusterless; the stone which has suffered
greatly shines forth in dazzling brilliancy.
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SUFFERING, FELLOWSHIP WITH
CHRIST'S
John B. Tabb expresses the requirement laid on true disciples of Jesus, in this verse:
In patience, as in labor, must thou be
A follower of me,
Whose hands and feet, when most I wrought for thee,
Were nailed unto a tree. (Text.)
—The Independent.
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