The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-07
MORE GRIT; LESS QUIT"


Had spent the night In drinking.
AS morning broke and they awoke,
While yet their eyes We're blinking,
A farmers pail came 10 the swale.
And caught thcm quick Us winkinE.
Ere they could gather scattered senses
Or breathe prayer for past Offenscs
The granger grdYc-that guilelesss man
Had dumped them In the milkman's can.
The can filled up, the cover down,
They soon are started off for town.
The luclhess frogs began to quake
And sober no on cola milk shake.
They quickly find their breath will stop
Unless They swim upon the TOP.
They swim for life. and Kick and swim
Until their weary eyes grow dim
Their muscles ache. their breath grows
short
And. gasping, speaks one weary sport:
Say, dear old boy. it's pretty tough
To die SO young. but I've enough
or kicks for life. No more I'll try 1t;
i was not raised on 4 milk diet"
tut. tut. NV lad the other cries,
"a frogs not dead until he dies,
Let's keep on ldcking. that's my plan:
We may yet see outside the can"
NO use no use" faint heart replied,
Turned up his toes and gently died.
The Drawer frog. undRuntoa still,
Kept kicking with a right good will
ontil with Joy too great too utter.
He found he'd churncd n lump OF butter,
And, climbing on that chunk of grease
He tloated round with greatest ease.
This rude fable. stin more rudcly ex-
pressed. contains moral we would all do
we'll 20 heed. 1t teaches lesson Of per
severance and its fruits. !, points out
quantity but clearly the rewards of coniin-
ucd effort. No success In any ayocation
has ever been achieved without persistency
Men do not spring into prominence and
popularity In single night. II takes years
OF toll and care and application 10 bring
the lawyer. the doctor the preacher. the
merchant. to the front ranks
And the same principle OF more grit.
less quit obtains In the religious world
We need more courage under dancers
NOR grit under hardships more perscyer-
once under persecution. The great men in
the religious world those pure lofty souls
who were above the world Will, In H. have
been men OF patient endurance. have been
men who believed Gods word was trur
who believed Cirists promises we're sure.
and who worked and prayed against ain
ara shame and oppression never doubling
their uitimite success
raul continued faithful unto the end
Stripes and bruises. among perils by land
and sea, false brethren and bodily amfflic
tions. shame and dungeons heights nor
depths. probabilities nor powers, things
present nor thinE.' 10 come. nor any other
creature, could cause him to give nm his
gran on the promises Cf God or cause him
fled ''"''
In the eighteenth chapter of Luke Jesus
hays' That men ought always to pray and
not to faint" and he Illustrated his idea
81 perseverance, by the parable OF the un
fortunate widow and unjust Judge.
william Carey went To India For year.
everything went against him. He had 10
contend with poverty. fever and bereayo-
ment' He was Obliged to labor in an indigo
factory 10 support himself and family AZ
Ter seven years OF toll and self-sacriflce ha
baptized only one convert But through
all these observation-disclosures he did not abate
one jot Of heart and hope, but stil hnro
up and pressed onward There are thous
anhs OF Christians now in india. Robert
Morrison went 10 China In a deep cellar
by the aid of dim light. he spent twelve
years In TRANSMITTING the word OF God. For
years he had no associate He lived TO see
only three or four converts. but his faI,h
was mistaken, In his last letter he said
The Lord regneth." China now has
thousands OF Christians. These and many
Others had the true spirit OF persevcring
herVice. amid all their loneliness, trials
and struggles, they heard the voice OF
Inspiration: I'm due season We shall roam
II ye faint not"
In the character OF Joseph. Endeavorer.
have an illustration of how God blesses
those who will not surrender to tempts.
fion or be overcome by trials. II there
ever was young man surrounded by adj
verso circumstances. environments which
are prone 10 make one give up trusting In
God. II was this model son OF Jacob and
Rachael
/. He lost his mother at the are OF II.
2. His own brothers turned against.
3. He was taken from his old father.
4 He was made slave In the house OF
I heather.
., He was cast into prison.
Yes. II did seem hard: It did seem as II
the God OF his fathers had forsaken him.
But Joseph never gave up He never quit
and believing that Jehovah was
still his God and would bring him out
ronquerer IN the end, Under these depres-
sing circumstances. exposed To the allur-
Ing yanities and designations OF sinful
and worldly life. Joseph never released his
grip upon the promises OF God but loved
and worshlpped Him through IT all until
God rewarded his faith and perseverance.
He did not understand then what It all
meant, the clouds were dense and dark,