Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-12-23

blessed today. A very learned Divine
is gwine to address you. This educat-
ed Elder that is gwine to speak to you
knows the unknowable; he speaks the
unspeakable; and he can onscrew the
inscrutable."
I want to talk to you on subject
that is ever exercising the public MIND
and is now filing the public press.
That subject is preparedness. What Is
preparedness? The dictionary says it
is the act of being ready, of being pre-
pared. When you go to class you know
instinctively whether or not you are
prepared Sometime you get through
lesson and get a good mark when
you know that it was an accident. The
question is have you cheated yourself
or your teacher?
| l hold that you have done both. l
once heard a successful man say tnal
he had some little respect for the man
that could fool the other fellow, but
i the man that would fool himeslf was
! hopeless. 1t has been said that Gen
ius consists in an infinite capacity for
taking palms." Without contesting
this worthy sentiment, I wish to say
that, generally speaking, genius con-
sists in an inordinate capacity for eff
fective thinking.
You have come here to prepare for
life's battles, each one for himself.
The object in going to school Is to
learn how to think. The things that
you learn from the books are only 8
part of the liberal education that
ought to be yours. You would inc
your tasks much easier if you knew
how to work effectively. The boy that
has learned some one thing and
knows that he knows" has advanced
The sayings of wise mon have been
recorded since language was invented
The two old sayings that In my opin-
ion are the greatest are, first, ''KnoN
thyself" Think Of it, "Know thyself.'
If you will learn yourself you have
made the greatest preparation that g
man ever made.
Know how to take care of youl
health, how to curb your passions
how to control your temper, how tt
be good natured, how to do right, anc
above all, how to say mo" The othel
proverb is a very homely one. HTher;
is more in the man than in the land
You don't have to go five miles from
, here to find a man that is farming 81
poorly that you are sorry for the land
1t is so in all trades and in all pro
fessions. Any business is a good bus
, mess if you are the right man and yol
| find good stand.
) There is such a thing as luck but
: very seldom keeps down the prepared
man. Men seldom achieve anythin.
by accident or by chance. The way t.
3 prepare effcientlyfis to get. down t.
t the why and wherefore Of things am
2 understand them.
: There is much truth in the old an
D familiar hymn:
: Little drops of water
J. Little grains Of sand
Make the mighty ocean" etc.
Men achieve happiness and wealth i
n the small things they do.
: The tallest building and one of tn
V greatest stores in the world was bull
v from nickels and Dimes This is tn
d Woolworth building in New Yorl
Your success will not come from on
V study or one brilliant recitation, BIT
IL it will come from being prepared.
It The study of man is part of lii
eral education-a part of your pref
n aration.
= Success seldom comes to men h
r chance. They have been preparin
+ perhaps unconsciously to themselve
: Waoster's reply to Fla. ne still liv>
D as one of the worlds masterpiect
III of oratory, and Is taken as a mode
and by many is believed to be Il
I. greatest speech ever made in tt
American Senate. The contempor
:. ries of Demosthenes said he was not
6. NATURAL orator, but his study and pre-
aratfon made people think So Do "