The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-05-17


L Magazine. Is is as full of meat
p as an egg and should be read
& by every man and boy in the
4 land:
There has been altogether too
& much talk about the secret of
i success. Success has no secret.
8 Her voice is forever ringing
+ through the markctplace aud
3 crying in the wilderness, and
{ the burden of her cry is one
8 word will Any normal young
4 man who hears aud heeds that
j cry is equipped fully to climb
to the very heights of life.
The message would like to
b leave with the young man and
s women of America is Il message
: have been trying humbly to
+ deliver from lecture platform
4 and pulpit for more than fifty
years. 1t is message the nc,
3 curancy of which has been af-
> ilrmed and reallirmed in thou
Z sands of lives whose progress |
have been privileged To watch.
: And the message is this; Your
# future stands before you like a
block of unwrought marble
{ You can work it into what YOU
will, Neither hcredity, nor en-
vironment, nor any obstacles
snperimposed by man, can keep
you from marching straight
through to success, provided
you are guided by firm, driv.
ing determination, and have
normal health and Intelligence
Determination is the battery
that commands every road of
4 life. 1t is the armor against
I which the missiles OF adversely
I. rattle hurmlessly. If there is
one thing have tried peculiar
ly to do through these years it
. is to indent in the minds of the
youth of America the living
fact that when they give VIZ
the reins and say ''Drivel" they
are headed toward the heights.
The institution out of which
Temple University grew was
founded thirty years ago eX
pressly to furnish opportunities
for higher education to poor
boys and girls who are willing
TO work for it, | have seen
. ninety thousand students enter
its doors. a very large per
centage of these came to Philn-
delphia without money, but
firmly determined TO get an ed
. ucation. have never known
one of them TO 20 back defeat.
ed. Determination has the
properties of a powerful acid;
all shackles melt before it.
Conversely, lack of will pow.
er Is the readiest weapon in the
arsenal of failure. The most
hopeless proposition in the
world is the fellow who thinks
that success is a doorway
through which he will some
time stumble if he roams around
long enough. Some men seem
to expect ravens to feed them,
the cruise of oil to remain mex
haustible, the fish to come right
up over the side of the beat at
mealtime. They believe that
life is a series of miracles. They
loaf about aud trust in their
lucky star, and boldly declare
that the world owes them liv-
ing.
AS a matter of fact the world
owes a man nothing that he
does not earn. In this life
man gets about what he is
worth, and he must render an
equivalent for what is given
hum. There is no such thing as
inactive success.
Turning Points In Young Mems Lives
My mind is running back
over the stories of thousands of
boys and girls have known
and known about, who have
faced every sort of Il handicap
and have won out solely by
VIII and perseverance in work
ing with all the power that God
mad given them. 1t is now near
" thirty years since a young
English boy came into my Of
nee. He wanted to attend the
evening classes ut our univer-
slly and learn oratory.
why don't you go into the