Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1917 — Many Persons Fail Because They Lack the Traits of the Bulldog [ARTICLE]

Many Persons Fail Because They Lack the Traits of the Bulldog

By REV. F. W. BARNUM of Chicago.

The bulldog is “not much for beauty,” but he knows how to shut his jaw. He does not have many requests for his portrait, knows the art of hanging on. There are plenty of people in this world who ought to go to school to this teacher. ' Many a man fails, not from lack of opportunity, or from Jack of ability, but from lack of courage and persistence. Many people begin an enterprise with great enthusiasm, but they get tired before it is three weeks old. Their need is not more talent, but more will; not larger gifts, but more determination: —— ■ ~ ~ The church has too many feeble folk who lack the quality of persistence. They are good, but weak. They have noble impulses, but they do not follow them up. They have high ideals, but for lack of resolution they never put thein into practice.