Show is 11 Sk t lies n S. S i C HEAVEN CAN WAIT A revivalist was exhorting Ms his congregation to prepare for a better life and asked those who wh would like to go to heaven to stand up You might think there could be but one answer to that question yet one man failed failed tailed fail tail ed to rise Dont you want to go to heaven brother asked the pr preacher acher No thanks replied the unusual unusual un un- un usual one I like it here A happy and successful life lire depends on our ability to keep the proper balance between contentment contentment con con- I like It here and ambition I want to go to en Dont Don't be too easily satisfied in 1958 There may be greater things in store for tor you than you Imagine if you are willIng will will- Ing log to follow your hunches and take some chances I am re reminded reminded reminded re- re minded of Gerald Heards Heard's story about two caterpillars who were looking up at a butterfly One caterpillar said to the other caterpillar caterpillar cat cat- never get me up In one of those things He had his facts wrong but even worse his attitude was wrong Keep pegging away In 1958 If think you haven't been lucky In 1957 just remember that a coin will come up heads half the time If you keep on flipping nipping I first heard of Harlan Hatcher Hatch Hatch- er who Is now president of the University of Michigan when my sister was in an English class he taught at Ohio State university She felt honored to tobe tobe tobe be in his hI class because he had won recognition for a novel he had written Howard Hamilton told me meonce meonce meonce once that Dr Hatcher wrote his novels by getting up fit teen minutes early every day and writing a page or so before breakfast This extra effort erfort enabled en him to accept higher levels lev lev- els of or responsibility Maybe you dont don't dont don't have any desIre desire de de- sire to be a university president president dent Well the same principle can work for tor anybody When Roland and Alberta Nelson were married they agreed to landscape land land- cape their farm home by plant Ing fog ten trees or shrubs every year year- Now they have a beautiful lawn because they kept at It Jesus told the people eople of his time The kingdom of heaven Is at hand Today It U is still at hand band Wont Won't yo you yot step In |