The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-18
Ruler of
Destiny
Man Makes
Luck Good
or Bad
BY DIR. MADISON C.. PETERS,
Noted New York Divine.

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed what they Destiny
the mysterious governing power Pny said people their
successes to virtue and ability but is all fate spoke
in connection with the Roman and generals thing
Caesar when crossing told the pilot carry
and his good fortune Alexander depended upon Napoleon
always talking about his star Cromwell had similar
destiny"
What the idea of "ehance?" Circumstances do combine
sometimes give favorable opportunities for gang precious prizes
As Shakespeare has it, "Ihee tide the which,
taken at It's flood leads fortune But who controlled this tide?
Chance and goes like all other opportunities life
who makes the of the benefit and circumstances
stead of being hnance quarry out of which we are to get
the paving stones for the road o success.
The successful man is not he who idly stands with akmbo
until occasion tells him what do but rather he up
sleeves strikes when the iron hot and keeps hot by striking ct"
not III stars dear Bruu but ourselves that undering
That fortune is tickle jade that hit than good w.t.
the bugbear of The idle and languid
Away with the crude blind goddess
her blind hand she blind her gifts" Robert
egence and enlightenment of twentieth century when
"Io catch Dame Fortunes golden smile,
Assduou wait upon her"
Success by doing the right thing the right right
Sir Walter Raleigh flung his lace jacket puddle
proud queens favor In
"Who breaks his births invidiou bar
And grasps the skirts of happy chance
And breasts the blows Of circumstance
And grapples with his evil star"
Your sO-calld lucky fellows usually keen sighted who
have surveyed the world with scruning eye of
what ought be done unite the skill their practical plans
"Our remedies in ourselves do lie,
Which acrile heaven; the fated sky
Gives US free scope and only backward pulls
Our slow designs when ourselves dull
Sir Thomas Buxton said The longer live the certain
that the difference between between the great and the nsgnf
can't energy, nyncbe determination honest purpose fixed
and then death victory This quality will do anything the world
and talents, will make twoegged
without it,"
An old Latin prOyerb says Opportunity has hair 'front.'
bald behind. Seize him by the forelock"
Is it luck that gives the lawyer his clients physician patients
the preacher his hearers the merchant his business
hor the farmer his harvest Read the of Whos Who America
80 cent of great born the bacwoo graduated
from the University Of Hard knocks Men like Edison
ac of schooling by grit and ambition and by making
spare
Stephen Card the second richest in his day in America who
anne here poor immigrant boy said: g" began life spence
believe that mans best capital his industry John began
ife p'der in the of New York John Rockefeller worked
porter machine shop and Andrew Carnegie began a mes
enger boy
Men lose their luck by letting their energies through habits
nd unwise projects Nothing will up for which
trven Luck blossoms the of pluck Whatever your
powers, ultimate will be @out the most ar
uous, we'll directed life lasting la.or for semproment The prize
ongs to him wi with faith undng and with hope thick and
hin, keeps Arriving.