Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-17

repetition of little victories that
brings the complete conquest. So life's
difficulties are to be met a day at a
time. Perseverance in small acts of
patience and resolution brings one
to the top of the mountains of charac-
ter and resolution.
All prizes are for the winning Were
they to be had for everybody's reach
ing they would not be prizes.
There are rest-houses on all up
ward roads. Alas, though, many trav-
elers make these places of sojourn
their permanent abodes. No more pit
liable spectacle can be found in the
whole field of ambitious endeavor than
the easy satisfaction of many persons.
They stop too soon. At the end of
the first stage they cease climbing, as
is they had already reached the top.
They are content to look in self-con-
graduation upon the many below them
rather than in aspiration upon the few
above them. The lower arbors of the
mountain of success are thronged; it
is at the top that there is ROOM
Rest is proper; but if it is not
watched it quickly becomes sloth Pill
grim slept in the arbor long after he
should have been climbing.
There Is no rest this side of the &C.
lestial City for those who set upon
Christ's ascending way of salvation
and service.
A few days ago it was discovered
that there are numerous students in
the professional schools of New York
who entered upon fraudulently obtain
ed regents certificates Now the au-
thoSities are identifying these, and
compelling them to go back to the be-
ginning, take an honest examination,
and start all over again Some of these
men have spent years of time and a
great deal of money, upon the course
which they entered wrongly. Now,
like Christian after his lost roll, they
must retrace their steps at the cost Of
much labor and suffering. Eternal Wig
lance is the price of all things. "Well
begun is half done
On his way up the Hill Difficulty,
the belated Pilgrim met two scared
men running towards him One was
Timorous and the other Mistrust They
had seen lions in the way, and were
off in a panic. Now the real trouble
was not in the lions in front OF them,
but in the lack of lions in them. If
they had carried lions in their breasts
none of the beasts in life's pilgrimage
could alright them. 1t is not the diff
ficulties we meet. but the spirit in
which we meet them which really
counts, after all.
There are no Hills of Difficulty so
high as the heart of brave man.
obstacles are things to be overcome. y
"Touch the object that frightens
you" is the wise advice of the parent
to child who is afraid of the dark.
Most difficulties disappear, or be-
surmountable. as we advance toward
them.
"The distant pyramids Of stone,
Which. wedge-like, cleave the desert
airs.
When nearer seen, and better known.
Are but gigantic fights of stairs"
The lions in Christians way proved.
after all, to be chained. They were no
menace to him, despite the fearful ru-
mors he had heard. A safe rule for all
travellers on the highway Of life is to
go straight ahead and barriers will
disappear as they advance. God is
II n1 70 o1yn
who follows the path which he has
marked out.
Everybody, like Christian, has had
reason to be glad of the advice which
he did not take.
The goal vindicates the journey.
Obstacles conquered are strength
gained.
TITS doeged as does it," says the
proverb. The straight-ahead plodder
arrives before the swift spurters or
prosecutors.
There is an arbor Of refreshment at
every hard Mace in the Christians
life. A New York worker wrote beau
tiful poem recently upon the daily
Subway ride which is his time Of wor
ship.
SEVEN SENTENCE CERMoNS.
When anyone has offended me. I try
to raise my soul so high that the of
tense cannot reach it.-Descartes.
The man of science is unworthy OF
the name if he disdains to listen to OBJ
jections to a favorite theory.-J. A
Froude.
| One who bears his life upon his hand
To lose it or to save it, as may best
| Serve the designs of Him who givetf
! life-H. w. Longfellow.
Do what's right, come what may
Anon.
He that contemneth small things
shall fall by little and little-Eccles
i 1911.