The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-09-08
A Word TO YOUNG MEN.
Must be Willing to Hazard soms-
thing to Win Success. -
EXAMPLES oY SUCCESS ANu
FAILURE THAT Po1NYsA
= WHOLESOME -ESSSsoN.

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= WHOLESOME LESSON.
The Outlook.
We have the right to expect of young
men the high ideal, the hopeful asplra-
ton transmitted into action by high
and strong and strenuous endeavor.
And yet all this will go for nothing
without a true aud noble conservation.
The man who succeeds is the man who
ventures.
'Nothing venture, nothing win" is
a wise motto, though the gamblers
have misused it. The man who sue
ceeds is the man who is willing to haz-
ard something for success, and the man |
who is never willing to hazard any |
thing for success remains on the dead
level of mediocrlty. When Luther
went outside the walls of Nuremburg
and burned the Papal Bull, he knew
that up to that time every man who
had defed the Pope of Rome had paid
the penalty with his life and all his
friends and followers had suffered with
him; but yet he risked, not only his
life, but the peace of Germany and the
welfare of those who gathered about
him and nothing less than that would
have aroused Europe from its long
sleep. Mcclellan was great engineer,
great captain, great organizer, but
he was not great soldier, because he
was meyer willing to fight until there
we're no hazards to be taken while
Grant ran by the batteries OF Vicks-
burg, cut himself off from his own
supplies, put himself between two ar
mics, ran the risk of being ground be-
tween the upper and neither nillstones
and won the great battle which cut the
Confederacy in two, because he had
j the kind of conservation of one who is
willing to hazard great failure in Or
der that he may win a great success.
| Audiences think oratory very easy. 1t
is nothing but talking. But the man
who really holds the attention OF bis
audience always goes upon the plat
form with a tremuious heart, and al
ways is willing to fail if need be, in Or
der that he may succeed if he can.
The great achievements OF history
have been wrought by men who were
willing to lay down their own lives
that they might win life for others.
Courage, enterprise, force, the quality
that make forlorn hope, is what we
want in young men. The other day a
steamer was crossing the Atlantic
Ocean they came upon wreck with
some men on board the waves were
running so high that 1t was doubtful
whether any boat could live in the sea
the captain would not order any one
into a boat to rescue those upon the
wreck, but he called for volunteers
and the boat was instantly filed by
sailors who we're willing to be drowned
if they might save others. That is the
spirit that dares hazard itself for the
sake or a high service. Moses ha;
been the statesman and the leader o1
the Children of Israel, the time OF his
service expires; he dies; and the voice
of Cod know not whether inter
preted in any other way than the voice
of God may be interpreted to you or tt
me-calls on the servant who has beer
, attending him to take up the banne
) which Moses has laid down, assume The
responsibility that has been taken b.
death from Moses, and become th;
commander-in-chief of this wanderin:
people and the servant takes the re
snonsibility and runs the hazard OF al
awful failure that he may achieve
great success.
This is courage high ideal, a hop
> that the ideal may be realized, stron
resolve to enter upon it, and reso!v
so strong, so intense, so deep, S
earnest, so thorough, that l am wlllln
to fail if need be, and let some one els
~ carry out what have tried to do.
Courage may be various'y led.
% NAV be the rashness Or mere Ignorance
= or the audacity OF great sell concel
or the recklessness of mere physics
. strength, like that of Sampson. 81
the great leaders of mankind hav
drawn their courage from an intinl
reservoir; they have lived in tt
atmosphere OF the invisible and IL
- eternal. Mohammed believed in b
- destiny Napoleon in his star; WI
D. liam of Orange, Cromwell, Was
lg ington, Grant, in their God. /!
j. courage that carries men through Il
or perils and perplexities of life IS Il
g courage of the man who Gays, u
-, an instrument In the hands OF OF
~ higher than myself. 1t he wants ST
rk cess, he will give 1t to me if he pr
IT, me in the front of the battle, that
,le NAV die and that others may win th'
- success over my corpse, Will be In
~ forlorn hope willingly"