Notes

NOTES.

"Don't wait for great things; for while you wait, the door to little ones may close."

To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. Samuel Smiles.

It is related that Dwight L. Moody once offered to his Northfield pupils a prize of five hundred dollars for the best thought. This took the prize: "Men grumble because God puts thorns with roses; wouldn't it be better to thank God that he puts roses with thorns?"

"I attach great importance to reading good books. Whatever success I have attained I attribute to the literature that I have read. It opens a world of thought and reasoning, and uplifts one to higher ideals and nobler ends. One may be poor, but in spirit he feels himself a prince, and equal to any other man. Good reading stimulates action and thought. I am never more pleased than when I see a young man read-

ing a good book. I consider it one of the best signs." — W. A. Nash, banker.

Who has not noticed the power of love in an awkward, crabbed, shiftless, lazy man? He becomes gentle, chaste in language, enthusiastic, energetic. Love brings out the poetry in him. It is only an idea, a sentiment, and vet what magic it has wrought. Nothing we can see has touched the man, yet he is entirely transformed! So a high ambition entirely transforms a human being, making him despise ease and sloth, welcome toil and hardship, and shaking even kingdoms to gratify

his master passion. Mere ambition has impelled many a man to a life of eminence and usefulness; its higher manifestation, aspiration, has led him beyond the stars. If the aim be right, the life in its details cannot be far wrong. Your heart must inspire what your hands execute, or the work will be poorly done. The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart. Success.