Arizona republican., 1907-12-23
SUCCESS AND FAILURE.

Success and Failure in Life" was
, the theme Of Rev. Julius Atwoods
morning discourse. He said In part:
/ am going to speak this morning OF
success and failure in life. II is nee
essary to do this for IL is a tune In
the history Of the world when false
standards are prevalent. when people
ali around us. especially young men
and women. are being deluded by a
wrong definition as TO what consti-
tutes success and failure. II is time
when many are seeking notoriety.
confusing IL with fame, and dreading
nothing so much as what they call
obscurity. which means not being in
the public eye. or what Is the same
| thing. the public press. We often have
pointed out certain men as successful
men. and others as failures. Gener-
ally they are the men who have made
money and those who have not. Some
times they are the men who have been
successful in political life and those
who have lived a more quite and re-
tired life. who perhaps have faithfully
performed all the obligations that have
fallen upon them and done many a
noble deed Of which the world has new
er known. And still a man may be
what the world calls successful and
yet according to a true definition his
life is a miserable failure This is so
if there is world To come. and ] am
inclined to think il is also true meas
ured in the light Of the present world
If there are higher things than money
and public notoriety. Is It not true that
men seem sometimes to fail and yet
through these very failures reach sue
cess?
There is that most chivalric Chris
tian soul of the last century. Chinese
Gordon How brave and how simple
and unworldly he was. He died in the
Soudan. having failed in the great
purpose that he had undertaken. but
the story of his faith. his devotion and
his love has thrilled tine hearts OF mil
lions and he is counted among the
great heroes of his country. while his
life has been an Inspiration to all the
world.
But / am thinking not only Of those
who reach fame and fail, Of those who
seeming to fail really succeed and so
have fame that is true and lasting
come to them, but also of those to
whom reputation never comes. whose
lives seem to be failures and yet are
not such even though they are not
recognized as successful by the great
world outside. / often stand in rev.
erence before such splendid failures
that one cannot help but look with
pity. not unmingled with contempt,
upon some arrogant. conceited, miser-
failures NIB fnlr sr,,Arv
have Succeeded because they have at
tanned notoriety. What brave and IN
selfish men and women we meet IN oui
daily contact with the world men and
women who have been checked in their
careers. but who have borne them
selves bravely and tenderly with pa
thence and faith they have submitted
TO their lot. Call it not fate, but
Gods mysterious dealing with His
children; obedience to some law which
we may not now understand. Out OF
the apparent failures of their li~,s
they have developed such characters |
as will richly fix them for the COM
pletion of their careers now broken |
and hindered for a season hut rhicn |
somewhere and sometime Will b. real |
lied.
The man or woman turned aside |
from work by sickness. by poverty, by |
the failure of Opportunity. hy this or |
that disappointment does not fail as |
long as he or she maintains the Clg-
nifty of character. the self respect, tho
consideration for others. the 'AItn IN |
Cod and in men that marx; he true
hearted man or woman
YOu can never smell tho ,yor1 r.,
ure above the life of any person whose
character has been developed ar,l |
made rich in the fiery furnace of dis
and affliction even
though success has never come to any
Of his endeavors in this world.