Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1915 — Get Ready. [ARTICLE]

Get Ready.

It is a great thing to be prepared, not only to die, but 'also to live. The prizes of life —the higher, if not always the lower material prizes—go to the man who is there, and who is there as a prepared man. The best advice, then, that can be given to a young man or woman is this: “Be ready!” But no one can be ready, without getting ready, and to get ready, for any great task, at any rate, is a matter of time, perhaps also of much toll and severe sacrifice. Often we fail to achieve the best results because we do not take time to get ready, our zeal springing up like the squash, instead of hardening into fiber like the oak. The best values in life come high and come hard. But how vast are the rewards that are insured for the man who is ready in the day of his chance, only God and the angels can estimate.