The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-11-21
CONSTANT APPLICATION NECESSARY

CONSTANT APPLICATION NECESSARY
The road to success in any depart
mant of life leads through constant
application. This truth DEVELOPS
among children in the school room,
as it does among adults in other
business of life.
The students that make rapid pro-
gress and attain success in schoolare
! those who spend the hours for study
in constant application. One reason
why many children to whom goc4
school advantages are afforded do
not make more rapid progress is BE-
cause they are not taught the great
importance Of the application. On
this point the Albany Advertiser
says:
There is no royal road to an edu
cation, but knowledge is a rugged
hill to climb through stony and diff
cult ways, and it requires patient
plodding to attain that height from
which the prospect is bright and
pleasing.
A boy or girl should be taught
that the getting of an education is
business, and one that admits of very
few diversions without serious and
irreparable loss. 1t is a business
too, that not only demands, but rich
ly merits the active and undivided
attention of the child, for it not only
opens up the afenues of successful
employment in after life but in its
itself is of the greatest intrinsic
value. The intellectual faculties of
man in their proper exercise and d.
rection, furnish the most refined en-
joyments of which our natures are
susceptible.
AS with school children so it is
with men in other departments of
life. II the farmer would succeed in
extracting from his soil its greatest
possibilities, he must do so by the
constant application of both his
mental and physical energies. No
farmer need expect his efforts on the
farm to be crowned with success
who devotes a good pc" cent of his
time to other diversions than that
of his business. And if many in this
great field who have fallen short of |
success, would make out an accurate
balance sheet showing the time de-
voted to their business and the time
not thus devoted, they would doubt
less find that their shortage is attri-
butable to the fact that they have
not continually travelled the road
that leads through constant applica-
ton to business.
The merchants success, too, de-
ponds upon his constant attention
to, and his watchfulness of every
minutia of his business. If he be de-
ficient in application to his business,
it requires no prophet to foretell
that early failure will be the reward.
The same is especially true of men
engaged in the professions. If "a law
yer or doctor spend only part of
his time at his office in the study of |
his profession, and the remainder of |
the time upon the streets and else.
where in social commingling and in
discussing topics and questions that
have no relevancy to his profession
he will soon become q professional
drag and failure will be written up
on his flag. 1t matters not how
strong may be mans natural abil-
tiles, application is necessary to his
perfect success in any business.
Herein is where many men of SPLEEN
did natural abilities fail and come
far short of their possibilities. No
boy or girl, man or woman, can sue
coed without applying themselves
to their business or calling, no mat
ter what it be. The sooncr the
young people learn this lesson, the
better and more advantageous will
it be to them in after years.-Forsyth
| Advertiser.