Show 7 T-r T MEN THAT SUCCEED ARE THOSE TO WHOM THERE ARE NO IMPOSSIBILITIES I Prizes in Lifes Life's Struggle Won On Only I t. t by Those Who Refuse to Accept Accept Defeat De De feat feat Failure Failure Nothing but a Test Ted of Manhood d. d J- J After of Napoleons Napoleon's soldiers had been overwhelmed by the advance advance ad ad- adof vance of Austrian Austrin n troops he addressed them thus I am diSpleased displeased dis diS- pleased with you You have evinced neither discipline nor valor You have have- allowed yourselves to be driven from positions where a handful of resolute men might have arrested an army You are are areno no longer French soldiers Chief of staff cause it to be written on their standards They are no longer Ion lon of the ger army of Italy In tears the thee battered battered veterans veterans veterans' replied replied re reo plied We have be been n misrepresent misrepresent- ed The sol soldiers of the enemy were three to one Try us once more Place us in the post post of ot danger and nd see if we do do donot not belong to the army of ot Italy In th the next battle battle- they they were placed in the van yan and they made good their pledge by rolling back the great Austrian army I He is a a pretty poor sort of man who loses courage and fears to face the world just because he has made a mistake or a n slip somewhere because because because be be- cause his business has failed because his property has been swept away b bj by some general disaster or because of oi other trouble impossible for him to t to av avert This is the test o of your jour manhood How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself If you jou lie down now DOW throw up your hands bands and acknowledge yourself yourself yourself your your- self worsted there is not much in ID you But if with heart undaunted and face turned forward you you refuse to give gye up or to lose faith in in your yourself self if you scorn to beat a retreat you will show that the man left in you is bigger than your loss greater than your cross and larger than any defeat I know no such unquestionable r badge and ensign of a sovereign mind said Emerson as that tenacity of purpose which through all changes of ot companions c or or parties or fortunes changes chang s n never ver bates no jot jot of heart or hope but wearies out opposition and arrives at its port It is men like Ulysses S. S Grant who whether whether in the conflict of opposing armies on the battlefield or in the wear wear an and 1 tear or of civic strife fighting against reverses battling for a competence for for his loved ones even while the hand of death lay chill upon him bates no jot of heart or hope that wring victo victory y from the most forbidding forbidding for for- bidding circumstances It is men like Napoleon who refuse to recognize defeat de d defeat feat who declare that impossible is not in their vocabularies that accomplish accomplish ac ac- accomplish things Orison Oris Orison n Swett Malden Marden Mar Mal Marden den in Su Success cess |