Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — KEEPING AT WORK [ARTICLE]

KEEPING AT WORK

Perseverance Will Bring Results If One WilIJMy Retain His Confidence. .-.v-..,,, . „ . .■£ ■•’ . ’ , j-,' ..ft- ’. SUCCESS FOLLOWS FAILURE ' / e - ' . ’ --- History Full of Instances of World Leaders Who Refused to Be Discouraged When Their First Efforts Did Not Meet Approval. The romance centering about perseverance'ls the most fascinating in history; it is the statesman’s brain, the warrior’s sword, the lawyer’s toga, the inventor’s secret, the scholar’s open sesame, the driving force which enables the human engine to reach the Grand Union Depot of Success. Daniel Webster, the most eloquent defender and expounder of the American constitution, in his first effort at declamation in Exeter academy was a' failure. Embarrassed, he burst into : tears. ' : . Rickard Brinsley Sheridan, bne of England’s foremost orators, in his maiden speech, hopelessly broke' down, but muttered: “It’s in me, and will come out.” It did come out. DiSraeUj in his first attempt to speak in the house of commons, broke down, and when he was ignominiously hooted he shouted, “The day will come when you will hear me." Tim day came, and for 30 years he was one of the controlling powers in European politics. Thiers, the great French statesman and orator, said: “I have been beaten, but not cast down,” after making a complete failure of his-first speech in the chamber of deputies. He declared, “ a defeat is as useful as a victory.” Darwin spent 44 years collecting his facts on the action of the earth worm In the formation of the mold. . Carlyle went 20 times over the confused records of “The Battle of Naseby” to be quite sure as to the topography. Gibbon rewrote the first chapter of “The Decline and Fa'll of the Roman Empire” ten times and spent 20 years on the whole work. George Eliot said of her work upon “Romola t ” I began it a young woman, I finished it an old woman.” There is no royal rpad to success. Perseverance Is the old and sure route. Howe lived on beans he cookeu himself while completing his first sewing machine in London. He borrowed money to send his wife to America. He sold his first machine for five pounds and then pawned his letters patent to pay his expense home. > ~->i No man ever lopt In the battle of life, until he lost faith in blmnolf Columbus, In his journey day after day. wrote;. “This day we sailed westward, which was out of course.” No matter what happened, he constantly Bteered for the west—through sunshine and shower, with leaky Vessels and a mutinous crew, he stuck, until the glad cry of “Land ahead! ” rang In his delighted ears. Every great truth, every great man has had to fight the way to public recognition in the face of detraction, 'calumny and persecution, even against the opposition of the most progressive men. Heine says: “Every wbWe that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts there Is aIBO Oolgotha.”—-Dr Madison C. Peters.