Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1915 — Cashing Our Checks. [ARTICLE]

Cashing Our Checks.

If mistakes were riches, most of us would be wealthy. But perhaps we have not realized how rich we can really become through our mistakes. Every one of them can be capitalized. It has been said with keenness that "A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on his experiences.” The successful man is not the one who never makes mistakes, but the one who cashes his mis-take-checks promptly and at about 100 per cent. Every mistake of our life points the way, if we wlll but see it, to exactly the opposite of that mistake. It is when a man is so convinced of the hopeless futility of his own sinning life that he feels he must find a way out, that Jesus Christ has an opportunity to be heard as he says, "I am the way.” And so of every lesser mistake; there was a reason for it that need never be repeated. When we sternly demand of our every failure all that it owes us, failures will begin to keep out of our way.—Sunday School Times.