The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-21
USE IN ADVERSELY
Generally a Working Out of the
Law of Compensation.
undoubted Fact That Opposition o.
Hardship Tends to Bring Out
the Best There Is In Mans
Composition.

II wish i could slide along in busi-
ness as easily as George Seagrave,"
said John Nelson, as he joined his
father in the library after dinner.
whats up now?" asked his father.
"Oh, nothing" replied the son, "only
George has just been appointed assist
ant general manager of his fathers
firm. 1t doesn't seem right for fellow
TO have an advantage like that given
to him, while fellows like me have to
dig for everything they get"
But that seems to be the way tho
world is made, John, and the more l
capital arrangement. l used to feel
AZ you do, but I've lived long enough
to see great many things adjust
themselves. There is 4 law Of COM
Densation at work, my boy, and no
class has all the advantages 1t would
- 4 very poor world II we all slid
along rs easily as George does
What do you mean by that?' asked
the son.
"Just this: It takes opposition or
hardship, or whatever you please to
NIL ~ ~ DilnB Out llle ueSl III uS aDu
make us good for anything. You
know the old saying, It's three gener-
ations from shirt sleeves to shirt
sleeves A man goes out in his shirt
sleeves and gets his living, but he de-
ddes that his children shall have more
opportunity than he, SO he gives them
an education. The sons make money
by their educational advantages, and
they pass 1t on TO their sons, who have
never known the struggle of acquiSi-
ton. The sons sons go through II. And
so the shirt-sleeve process begins
again. 1t doesn't always happen so, but
IL happens with sufficient regularity to
form the basis of q proverb. The ex-
ceptiOn proves the rule"
Yes, but 1t needn't be So" replied
the boy.
II know that" replied the father,
~but there Is enough truth in II to
prove what l want to say. Even God
himself put the Jews through the proc
ess OF adversely to whip them into
shape. 1t was only about four hundred
miles in bee line across the wilder
ness. But God made the Jews take
forty years to get to Canaan, because
he wanted to toughen them and make
them ready for the conquest when he
GOT them there. The Bible saws he
led them not through the way of tho
Hand of the Philistines, although that
wns near. They would have got there
TOO quickly to stand the hardship. And
II they had defeated the PhilIstines
they would have been unprepared for
q still worse enemy; mean the opu-
lence and plenty Of Canaan.
Men are defeated by easy victories
and cheap successes more than by ad-
versities. Disraeli was Missed down in
the British parliament when he made
his maiden speech. But that only
Aoughened his fibre and stiffened his
resolve. Grants reverses were the
school In which he learned how to win
his later victories. It makes all the
difference whether a closed door ia
final rebuff or an invitation TO battle
through. I'm more afraid OF a cheap
and easy success for you than am of
struggle. If you struggle before you
achieve, you will have character TO
mold you steady when success arrives.
The trouble with many persons Is that
they have no character to go with their
acquisitions. 1t is case of diamond,
on dirty fingers
Have you never seen an engine