The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-29
kuler of
destiny
Man Makes
Luck Good
or Bad
By DIR. MADISON C. PETERS.
Noted New York Divine.

the mysterious governing power Pny people
successes to virtue and ability but it is all fate Cicero spoke of suck
IN connection with the Roman empire and generals settled thing
Caesar when stream, told the pilot You Caesar
and his good fortune Alexander depended upon uck Napoleon
always talking about about
destiny
What the idea of cnce?. Circumstances do
sometimes favorable opportunities for gapng precious prizes
AS Shakespeare has it, There is tide in the affairs OF men, which,
taken at its flood leads fortune But who controlled this tide?
Chance like all other opportunities life but the
who makes the gets greater benefit circumstances
stead Of being hndran constitute the quarry which get
the paving stones for the road to
The idly akmbo
until occasion tells him what do but rather is he who rolls his
sleeves strikes when the iron hot and keeps hot by striking IT'S
not in stars dear Bruu but in ourselves that underng
That fortune tickle jade that hit than good
is the bugbear of the idle and languid.
Away with the notion blind goddess and with
her blind hand She blind bows her gifts" Robert Burns had the in
tegnce and enlightenment century
"To catch Dame Fortunes golden smile,
Asduous wait upon her"
Success is won by doing the right thing the right time in the right
Sir Walter Raleigh flung his lace jacket in mud puddle and
proud queens favor In nine of ten the successful he
'Who breaks his births nvidous bar,
And grasps the skirts Of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance,
And grappes with his evil star"
Your so-called uy fellows usually sighted who
have surveyed the world with sutnzng and who clear ideas Of
what ought to be done unite the skill their practical plans
"Our remedies in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky
Gives us free scope and only backward pulls
Our slow designs when ourselves are dull"
Sir Thomas Buxton said "The longer live the certain am
th the great difference between men, between he great ana he S
energy inncbe determination honest fixed
and then death victory This quality will do anything the world
circumstances will make twoeggd
without it."
An old Latin prob says: Opportunity hair in 'front.' but is
bald behind. Seize him by the foreock"
luck that gives the lawyer his clients the physician his patients
the preacher his hearers the merchant his business the mechanic his la
Dor the farmer his harvest? Read the story of Whos Who in America
great graduated
from the University of Hard like
lack Of schooling by grit and ambition and by making the most of their
spare moments
Stephen Gad the second richest in his day in America, who
immigrant boy said ri began life with spnce and
believe that bestcapa his industry John Jacob Ao
the of New York John D. Rockefeller worked
porter in machine shop Andrew Carnegie began life
senger boy
lose their luck by letting their energies through bad habits
projects Nothing will for which
striven pluck may your
powers ultimate will attained without the
well directed life lasting labor for emprovement The
belongs him who with faith undyng and with hope through thick and
thin, keeps atrying