The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-05-17
WHAT YOU CAN Do WITH
YOUR WILL POWER

denomination IN his eyes.
81 have decided to become a
lawyer" he said-aud +. / knew
from the ring of his voice that
he mont it.
Many times after he became
mayor of Philadelphia he must
have looked back on that de.
cision as the turning point of
his life.
am thinking of a young
Connecticut farm lad who was
given up by his teacher as too
weak-mlnded to learn. He left
school when he was seven years
old and toiled on his fathers
farm until he was twenty-oue.
Then something turned his
mind toward the origin and de-
velopment of the animal king
dom He began to read works
on zoology, and, IN order to en-.
large his capacity for under
standing, went back to school
and picked up where he left Off
fourteen years before. Some.
body said to him; you can get
to the top il yoD CWr
He grasped the hope and nur-
turcd it, unit! at last it com
pletely possessed him. He On.
tered college at twenty-eight
and worked his way through
with the assistance that we
were able to furnish him. 70.
day he is a respected professor
of zoology in an Ohio college.
Such Illustrations could
multiply indefinitely. OF all the
boys whom | have tried to help
through college | cannot think
of n single ono who has failed
for any other reason than i'll
health But, Of course, | have
never helped anyone who was
not first helping himself. AS
soon as a man determines the
goal toward which he is march
ing, he is in a strategic position
to see and seize every thing that
will contribute toward the end
Practical Advice to Ambitious Young
People
Whenever a young man tells
me that if he chad his way he
would be a lawyer, or an engin
Ger, or what not, always re-
ply:
"Hou can be what you will,
provided that it is something
the world will be demanding.
ten years hence"
This brings to my mind GER
tain stipulation which the am
bitioh of youth must recognize.
You must invest yourself or
your money in a kaoHA dtumR.
You must select an occupation
that is fitted to your own
special genius and TO some ac-
mal want Of the people. Choose
as early as possible what your
life work will be. Then YOU
can be continually equippinl,
yourself by reading and observ
ing to purpose. There are
many thing which the average
boy or girl learns in school that
could be learned outside Just as
we'll,
Almost any man should be
able to become wealthy in this
land of opulent opportunity.
There are some people who
think that To be pious they
must be very poor and very
dirty. They are wrong. Not
money, but the lore of money, is
the root of all evil. Money in
itself is dynamic force for
helping humanity.
In my lectures | have borne
heavily ON the fact that we are
walking over acres of diamonds
and mines of gold. There are
people who think that their for
tune lies in some far country.
1t is much more likely to lie
right in their own back yards
or on their front doorsteps, hid
den from their unseeing eyes.
Most of our millionaires dis
covered their fortunes by simp.
ly looking around them.
Recently have been investi.
eating the lives of 1913 Amer.
lean millionairJs. All but
twenty of them started life as
poor boys, and all but forty of
them have contributed largely
To their communities. But alasl
not nnn rich mnnis son ont Of