Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — We Must Work. [ARTICLE]

We Must Work.

A most inevitable fact connected with our existence is that if we would become prosperous or successful at all: we must work nor is any one excluded.. Whether you are behind a plow or a desk, sweeping a chimney or governing a state, digging a ditch or editing a paper, grinding scissors or compiling text books, work you must. Look around you and you will see that the men who are able to live the rest of their days without working are those who have spent the most of their time in the hardest work. Don’t be afraid of killing yourself with overwork; some do, but it is because they quit work at six p. m. and don’t go home until two a. m. It is not the work but the interval that kills them. The world is not proud of men who do not work; in fact it is ignorant of their existence. They have fallen so far behind in the world’s progressive march that no one remembers that they ever enlisted in its busy ranks. Find out what you want to be and do, then take off your coat, roll up. your sleeves and go forth into the world’s great workshop, where you will find the rough material awaiting your skillful hand. The old saying, “There is always room at the top,” does not apply to those who are unwilling to climb. We live in a® age of activity, an age of aggression, a time of universal. emulation, a time when persistent effort is the only sure way to success, and if we would become prosperous in the vocation of our choice we cannot rest on oars and wait for a favorable tide of circumstances to bear us away to the harbor of fortune. A man may have genius, but he cannot depend upen that alone*, else he will end in miserable failure. The best genius is hard work. The sober, industrious, Godfearing young man is the one who. will b© crowned with a successful and happy life here below and glory in the one above.—College Echo.