Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — “Push Along—Keep Moving.” [ARTICLE]

“Push Along—Keep Moving.”

Such is the cry of progress everywhere. It is the watchword of the nineteenth century, written on every banner, carved on every blade lifted in in the cause of human advancement. —y“Pushalong—keep moving!” There’s a volume of good counsel in those words. To the young, just sotting out into life, they are of infinite value; they have an omniscient influence, girding the soul with everlasting vigor. If the arm grows weary and the heart faint, they tinge the future with the hues of triumph, and lead on the feet with hopeful strength; if obstacles rise in the way, “Push along—keep moving," from the lips of hope, is better than a Damascus blade in hewing out a path to victory. “Push along!” What if clouds, thick and heavy, are out before you! “Push along!” What* if your eyes see no signs of victory, and no gleams of hope! “Push along!” What if death stride into your household ring » and break all the shrines of idolatry? Mourn not hoplessly, look not always back, let the dead past bury, its . dead. “Push along—keep moving!" “Keep moving!” Nature cries it with her ten thousand tongues; the universe, as it rolls continually onward, echoes back the cry, “Push along! keep moving!” What your hand findeth to do, doit with all your might; pause not, rest not. “Push along!” It goes round the world like a trumpet-call, rousing up the slumbering, strengthening the weak, inspiring the fearful, urging the strong to continual conquest. It is everywhere the same, the spring and fountain of all true progress. Young man, if you would conquer in the battle of life, write this watchword upon your banner; “Push along—keep moving.”— American Cultivator.