Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-05-06
Golno to School to Yourself7

Going to School to YourseifI
. To the young man who complains Of
his lot: who thinks he has never had
| a chance in life: that he might have
been worth while but for his en- E.
vironment and its lack of opportunity.
We would recommend the reading +
the following little story from the
Christian Herald. and recurrens
Thought To ii:
"A little immigrant boy of eight
| years came through Castle Garden
from Wilton Park. Durham. England.
| a. years ago and went with his fath-
er to Ironton. Ohio. His father Was Il
i worker in the steel mills and his son
| took a place as a pnddler AT The
| furnaces and worked very hard for
years AT the age of 23 he could
neither read nor write. bnt his vie
was ambitious and aided him. aai
they pursued their studies together
| till at the age of % he found himself
| equipped with technical college and
seminary education. ready for the
ministry That English immisra nj
| lad is the Rev. DR.. William II. Nor
gan, who, after sixteen years of II
| successful pastorate at the Central NJ.
f. church at Newark, \. j.. has just
been appointed to the pastorate of tie
| Calvary Nj. +. church of New York.
| Around us, in every day life, We
see many cases almost as remarkable
only we are so familiar with them
1 I.,t tnly faa1t tap af
course and fail to note their signifi !,
cance. A case in mind was brought
out. during the last Maine Iegisia
j ture, by veteran travelling man. In
speaking of a certain widely known.
oft referred TO and mueh-quoted man
of high position, the travelling man.
said;
II know several men of that name
Iway up in S.. They are farmers
land carpenters, and day iaborers. l
Iwonder if he would claim relation,
, ship"
Il suspect that he would re-
: turned the other He came from
S. and goes back to see the folks.
frequently"
Fl "Whew." exclaimed the travelins
man, Il know him now; used to see
; him at Blanks store when he was a
) younsster. Wonder how he ever hap
pened to get an education, and get
away and grow up
Got away first, and got his educa-
tion as he was growing ur-and he is
still going To school To himself,
: sagely remarked the other
! Therein lies the advantages some
o people have over others-they are nos
e afflicted with self pity and waste II ,
= time in mourning over what they
i might have been tif ii hadn't been I i,
"A the efforD. They nourish hope, cult,
: vate persistence and grow mora
courage-and they go to school tc
Il themselves"
r. You may say that some men arc
), mighty poor schoolmasters. and that il
true, which explains why some met
L
are really big and others ona
THINK they are big" But the mar
who goes to school 10 himself an6
: neither lies to his pupil nor cheats a.
D his lessons is bound to get some
where, whether he ever sees the in
s side of a college or not
: Thus we are surprised, occasional
y liy, to learn that some man of higl
. position and in the confidence and es
TEEN of the people, is a boy of lowi
70 birth whom we had known and sup
II posed had grown up like his ances
a tors and was still plodding on lik
= them. But that hoy took himself i
Al something which to him looks piggo
IL and better in life.
4 DR. Morgan was boy of tina
IL stamp, and in this nations histor
10 there are very many thousands .
4 them. And a great many of thes
saw their opportunity at their yer
N elbows, chances that their ancestor
IS and the friends of their ancestors ha
es overlooked all the previous years.
II. 1t is not necessary to go far 10 fin
III opportunity, unless you know jus
4 what you want and just where it
y, located.
4 Many men have failed by being efl
~ sighted and dashing away from th
opportunity at hand.
n Boys. give yourself an examinatio
&c Ian honest one, physically and me-,