Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-11-12
1T Can't BE Done .''

This is the cry of weakness, indecisiOn
Indifference, and Incidence. What can't
be done? Something that some other
man has done. Well-you can do it
or you can do something toward it. At
all events, you can try. Until you have
tried-tried once and again-tried with
resolution, application, and industry to
do thing, no one is justified in saving
sit can't be done" The plea in such a
case is a mere excuse for not attempting
to do anything at all.
"Mother, can't do it," said little
boy looking up from his slate, on which
he had been trying hard to work out a
sum in algebra. ''Try again, my son, {"
said the mother; ''never give up until
you.dO it. Stick to it like man." The
boy would be like man he was en-
couraged by the hopeful words of his
mother. He stopped down again over
his task, and applied himself. The diff
ticulty cleared itself away before his
stout determination to overcome it and
in few minutes after, he looked mp
from his slate with an air of triumph,
''Well :" asked the mother. show is it
now?" 81 have done it 2" said the boy
nothing like sticking to it ~ Right,
my son when you have taken any good
work III hand that must be done, never
think for a moment of abandoning it
until it has been accomplished. That is
the way TO be a man." He took the
mothers advice, aud ii served him
throughout life. The boy is now a man
one of the most famous teachers in our
most famous university.
aft cant no Inna - rftins tho hast af
projects. The very words mean failure
and defeat. They are the ejaculation
of importance and despair. When they
are uttered, resolution and determine
tion-the soul of all success-have gone
out of the man and unless he be in
spired with some new life and energy,
he will do nothing. Impossible" said
a young French officer of artillery
''the word should be banished from the
dictionary" The officer was Napoleon
Bonaparte.
You may remember the story of Ii
mour the Tartar and the spider In the
cave. Trying to climb to certain
point the spider fell to the ground again
and again but still the little creature
rose again 10 the task, and at the for
tieth effort it succeeded. "Sureiy." said
Timour, ''if a spider can succeed after
so many failures, SO can after my de-
feats ;; and he sailed from his hiding
place with new hopes, rallied his men,
and ultimately conquered.
SO In all things. We must try often,
and try with increased resolution to
succeed. Failure seems but to disci-
pline the strong; only the weak are over
whelmed by it. Difficulties draw forth
the best energies of a man they reveal
to him his true strength, and train him
to the exercise of his noblest powers.
Difficulties try his patience, his energy
and his working faculties. They test
the strength OF his purpose, and the
force of his will.
Let no one say that because he knows
little, and can do little, he ought,
therefore, to rest where he is, and, dis
mayed at difficulties give up with ''1t
can't be done-it's of no use trying"
Would you lie in the gutter if thrown
down there? Mo- get up, act, work
cultivate your nature, determine to ad-
vance; and if you are resolute, you
must eventually succeed. There may
be difficulties to encounter, but the
dawn will surely come to him who has
patience to await it, and who has energy
of purpose to grapple with those diff
culties and subdue them. One half of
the difficulties will be found imaginary,
when they are fairly fronted.
Hope and diligence are the life and
soul of success. The temper in which
the words ''it can't be done, are uttered
have no kinship with these. ''It can't
be done does nothing it is a giving
up IN despair. But "It can be DONE"
1T shall be done, e,"-always achieves
wonders-and in the end seldom fails.