The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-03
How to Win Success" the
Subject of Rev. Eugene
r. Pendleton.
Large Congregation at the
Church Sunday Morning
to Hear Fine Discourse by
the Pastor, in Which He
Holds Out Hope For
Those Who Have Failed
A New Year Sermon.

Filled with encouragement for the
despairing ones and bidding them lifs
their heads once more, the New Years
sermon of Rev. Eugene r. Pendleton.
pastor of the First Baptist church, de-
livered in that church Sunday morn.
ing, was enjoyed by a large congrega-
ton. Special music added to the SER
vice
Mr.. Pendleton's subject was "How
TO Win Success" and was as follows:
The secrets of successful lives are
like finger-posts on strange road
pointing us to the tavern where We
would all fain arrive, and by scru-
tinizing them we find that the hidden
springs Of action are like the power
house OF great car system, obscure,
and shut away from the public gaze,
but necessarily at work. Back of the
brilliant campaign or the brilliant
speech are years Of patient grubbing.
Webster was famous as an extempo-
raneous speaker but said before he
died that he never made an extempo-
raneous speech in his life.
The greatest Of all sacred orators
and leaders was the apostle Paul. He
gives US an insight into his nlasterful
life in the words we take for text:
This one thing do, forgetting those
things which are behind, and reaching
forth unto those things which are be-
fore, press toward the goal"
The analysis of his successful life is
of great value to all who are seeking
10 carve success out or their block OF
| time, in whatever ayocation their lot
may DE cast In Paui's makeup there
is one noticeable element on charac-
| teristic on the surface of his letters
| that whose runs may read, namely.
concentration of purpuose, this one
thing / do" His was an intense life,
a focused light which burned its way
into the hearts of men, and kepr
steadily n the chanpel for which IL
was best fitted. Concentration IA an
element OF stretch III any life. Be
ware of the man with one book" The
smooth boI,> 5f a rife has greater car.
rying power than the blunderbuss.
Countless misfts testify to the failure
of men who scatter too much, and a
church can make an egregIous blum.
der by undertaking things for which
she is not intended. Ter work lis sin.
gular, namely, to save men. not to
please them. Oneness of purpose
comes before a success.
He who in life seeks one thing and
but one
Nay hope to attain it before life be
done:
But ne who seeks all things wherever
he goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which
| around him he sows
A harvest cf barren regrets"
Pauls object was not only one but
1t was high.
His High Aim.
| He sought not things but character.
Self-culture and service we're the
| ltouchstones Of his great career.
Some have the concentration without
the high aim. Their guns are trained
too low. Others have the high pur-
pose without the concentration. and
live a dreamlife, only to drift to the
isles of nowhere. The Castle OF In
dolence is mirage that beckons over
deserts and clustering sands and
leaves its victims to die in DESPAIR.
Success Is not luck but pluck. The
men who reach high stations were no.
carried there on f1owery beds of esar
but are the great workers of IT,
world, who pIodded while others ugL
| He'd. Another characteristic of og'
great apostle was that he was an ad
mirable forgotten
Forgetting the things which are be-
hind" He had his disappointment.
his failures and his sorTows as other
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