Show business endurance 1 men of genus without endurance cannot succeed men who start in in one kind of business may find it impossible to continue therein all their days daya III health may demand a change new and wider fields of iter enterprise prise and success inay may be opened to thern them new elements of character may be developed men may have a positive tive for some pursuits and success may demand a change none of cases fall within the general ruled rule men may have rare talents but it if they are levery thing by turns and nothing long they must wat not expect to t prosper no form of business busi liess is is free fre efrom from dexa eions each man knows the spot on which his own harness chafes but he cannot know how much his own neighbor suffers it is is said that a yankee can splice a rope in many different ways an english sailor knows but one method but ili in that method he does his work well life is is not long enough to allow any one to be really master master of awre thin one pursuit I 1 I 1 the history of eminent men in in all professions and call callings I 1 s proves this ellis the rhe great statesman I 1 daniel webster e aster wis was a great lawyer his bay flood was ivas marked only by uncommon irid industry ntY as a a speaker lie he did dd not excel in in early life with ith great deliberation he selected teil the law lack Is as ili ins pro profession fission nor could he be deterred f from rom its his clio chosen laen pur pursuit spit I 1 I 1 while a apor student not tile the tempting prize of a year as clerk of the c courts on res then a large I 1 sum suin gained with great difficulty for him by the zeal and influence of his father nor could all the persuasions of af the father tur turri Q him hial from the mark he had set before him arid and ini in s great eulogist the attorney general of massachusetts chu is is another marked illustration of resolute io endurance and indomitable industry life long centering ili in one profession th making ahing him one on e f the elie chief ants of that profession if not its head in in the united states our late distinguished ambassador ambas sidor at tile the court of st jimps james J imps hon abatt lawrence whose wealth has poured out tor for all benevolent 01 e it t purposes in in donations donation 3 large as aa the he sen sea scan can fe call the time lime who when n gehad his hii ejof faion to select and the 04 first dollar of hf ins his splendid fortune to earn lie he chose deliberately a calinor he pursued that occupation wish wih integrity and nd andu ranee rance through dark days and trying iwa season sons and tile the result is is before the world this case affords an apt bilu illustration iteration it ration ot of the proverb 0 of the wise man that a man diligent in in his business shall stand before kings and not before mean I 1 men the late john jacob astor as he left ilia his na uie tive germ germony my tny paused beneath ben i a linden tree not far from the line that separated his native land from another and made three resolutions ms which lie he intended should guide hini him tl t n r ugh life 11 1 lie ile would be honest 2 tie ile would be industrious 3 he would never gamble ile he was wa s on foots foot his wealth was in in the small hugule that swung froin the stick laid ibid on n his shoulder the world was before him he was able to carry them the m out his success is is elie best comment coment ent on his endurance stephen girard at the age of 20 years lr a was in in quite moderate circumstances being t the h e cap tain oi of a smal amai co abling vessel on the de I 1 aware and part owner of the same no trait trai t in in his character was more marked than his endurance and this element eleine tit gave him a fortune all men who have succeeded well in in life have been men of higl high resolve and endurance the famed william pitt was ili in early life fond of gaining the passion increased with IHS his years he knew that he must at once Il master laster the passion or the passion would mister hirn him ile he mide made 51 L firm resolve that he would never again alayat a gime game of hazard he could make such a resolution he could keep it his bis subsequent eminence eminence was the fruits fruit of that th it power william wilberforce in in his hia earlier days like most young men genf U his rank and age loved the excitement of places of hazard he was one night persuaded to keep the faro bank he sa saw w the ruin ruin of the vica ice of gaming as he never a saw aw it before lie he was appalled with what he beheld sitting amid gaming grat ruin and despair des lie he took the resolution or that he would never again enter a gaming house he changed his company with the diange of his conduct and subsequently be came one of the most dis distingue di shed englishmen of ins his a age 9 e 1 dr samuel amuel johnson was once re queued to drink wine with a friend the doctor proposed tea but drink a little wine wiep said his host 11 1 I know abstinence I 1 know excess but I 1 know no jio medium long since since I 1 resolved as I 1 could not drink a little wine wine I 1 would drink none at all A man who thus supports his resolution by ac tion was a man inan of endurance and that element is is as well displayed ili in tins this incident as antl in the e compilation of his great work wom 1 when richard brinsley sheridan madenis made his first speech is is parliament it was regarded on all hands as a most mortifying failure his friends urged him to abandon a parliamentary career and enter upon some field better suited to his ability no ano said sheridan no it is is iame in me and it shall rhall come out and it did and he became otte one of tile the most splendid debaters in in en eng g land loyola the founder of the order of jesuits the courtier the man of gallantry and tion obtained such mastery over himself bv labor and endur endurance atice that to illustrate the fact lie stood several hours apparently unmoved An in a pond of ice ice and muddy wlter water up tip to his chin perhaps no other nation in in europe at that time could have won the battle of waterloo ex capt the british because no other could have brought to the conflict that amount of endurance needed to win win for many hours that army stood manfully before the murderous fire of the french column after afler colun column n fell while not a gun was discharged on their part one sullen word of comman command ra ran ri along the line as thousands fell file up file up upa not yet no not yet cef was tile the iron dukes reply to earni earnist earnest st requests made to charge and fight the foe at length the time of action came the charge was wa s given i and victory perched upon the standard ol of eng land hunlie Hun lii merchants yag magazine azineF |