The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-06-07
These men illustrate my

laws These men illustrate my
thought. The soldier who quits at
the first scratch will never win, but
he who continues to fight on the
stumps after his legs have been shot
of, will win any battle, no matter
against what foe he fights.
THE power to do is the supreme
need. Napoleon's advisers pointed
to Tie map of Europe and said:
The Alps stand between you and
your anticipated victory Gentle
men, there shall be no Alps he re-
joined, and marched Onslaught to
Austerlitz. VIM. Lloyd Garrison
blazed across the first copy of the
Liberator Il am in earnest; ! will
not equivocate; l will not retract-
and l will be heard! Men stopped
to ask: Who is the man and what
has he to say?' They listened, and
though they hooted, execrated and
stoned, Garrison was heard; and to-
day the Liberator has witnessed the
last shackled body and Is leading the
race of slaves into a complete intel
lectual and spiritual emancipation.
Behind the thing done is the man
who does it. Look at his charac-
teristics Thoroughness-Not how
much can | do, but how well can |
do it? Honesty-The pupil who gets
his diploma by faithful work lays
the foundations of his future in
tegrity. Self Control-A conscious
ness of competency and a patient
waiting until the occasion needs
him and demands what he has as
content to stand still if that be his
place, as to be under the stress of the
battle. Modesty--It never plays to
the galleries. Caesar is too great a
man to speak of himself, replied one
who was aske. what the emperor
said of himself. The sunflower at
tracts by it's gaudy display but repels
by it's stencil. Courage--It stands
tor the highest ideals; it pleads for
them; it rejects all compromises and
waits for victory. Kindness -
Kindness is no bully. The consci-
entious convictions of every one are
entitled 70 consideration. Kind
ness is patient with the weakness.
foible, ignorance, aye, even the error
of another.
| How is this strength got?
ut is never an accidental posses
sion. No parent can transmit it to
his child, nor friend bestow it on his
friend. 1t has no college, and no
curriculum. No alchemy can pro-
duce it. How is it got?
1T is wrought out of the every
days duties. 1t is the golden pay
for small fidelities. The coarseness
of the nature yields to the attrition
Of these virtues and ere he is aware
he has the polish, the beauty, the
strength of the diamond.
| Every one elects his own victory
or defeat, No power under God can
defeat the man or woman, young or
old, who will not be defeated On
to Richmond! cried the intrepid
| Grant, and while the world won
dered, and doubted and prophesied
failure, the silent man marched on.
There is an Appomatox for every
man who wills it so.
But definitely, how can / VIM
There is but one answer for all
persons, in all ages and places:
| BY exhaustless reserves. His re-
serve power is the real measure of
the strength of every man. No bat
tie worthy the name is won by the
skirmish line.
THE first reserve Is Faith in your
self. With competency that can
meet and master any condition, have
faith in yourself. Many COM
petent man has proven con-
spicuous failure in life because he
lacked this self-confidence To at
tempt to do battle without COM
potency is foolhardiness. Russia
knows this now, and you will know it
in the battle royal if you go out
| against the foes of character with
out strength and equipment
"The second reserve is Faith that
the Right will win the conscious.
ness that victory cannot res with
wrong. A consciousness of per-
sonal integrity with which you can
look the world in the eye, is the in
carnation of this faith
The third reserve is Faith in
God. This links all forces to your
arm. 1t solicits all true influences
to fight for you. 1t commands all
worlds and all conditions to give you
OF their strength. Such an one
cannot fail.
Lastly: The only real success to
be won in this world is character.
Gods representative on earth is not
church, nor a creed, nor a philoso-
ply, but that thing of infinite value
which makes valuable church, creed
and philosophy well rounded man
or woman.
BE strong and show myself
man.