Show t t 4 l tt I I ABUNDANT LIFE Fifi Ii t i BY DY e ORAL a e a 11 ROBERTS ai j NOT TOO LATE TO START STAnT o ON EH En A certain young fellow ellow slumped down In rny tny office He Ire said laid I Iam Iam iem am em Just H II no flop Everything has hAIl gone Rone wrong Nobody believes In me an any more I t guess guen I 1 Just lost faith In myself completely What was wrong wrong lie He bad made a mistake It tt was Wall his chance of u a lifetime in the Arm he was working with Hut but ho had made a careless mistake and had been fired Now to him life lire was wu finished nut Hut why At the beginning of each day dy life lite be begins afresh druh At the close of ot each ench day we emerge from froman an old world Into a new now You cnn can let each day that closes close an old world to you And the hew do day can be a ft pleasant vestibule vesti est bule or door to which you enter entera a new world a new life Habe nabe Ruth Is le known as nI the home homo run hitter of ot alt all time lime nut But what Is not so o well welt known Is la that he also holds the tho record for tor the most strike outs Someone asked him one da day Babe nabe how do you feel about holding the record for lor the most strike outs He lie answered Well I 1 Just figured up According Accord Record ing to the law of ot ate average races I have found out that for tor ever every time lime that I strike out twice I knock a home run That does not mean that I wont won't strike out more than twice in arow I ma may strike out five flue times limes or II six x times time Out But when I avero average e it all up 1 T I always knock one home run for tor every two strike outs I make And so 10 when I knock a home run I am thankful When I 1 strikeout strike strikeout out I simply say eay this to myself t I am just that much closer clour ta to another home run If It you have hue lust Just struck out youre you're not finished You Vou may mar start over a again aln with nod Clod Th The re l religious leaders of ot His Ills day brought a woman taken in open sin First of ot all lie Informed her a a accusers that they themselves were not without with without out sin aln And then He tie turned to the woman and uttered these Im tm Immortal mortal words warda t I 1 do not condemn thee go and sin no more lie He was WU saying laying to her Forget Forgot the past pul Leavo it with me and start all over I do not hold your past against you t I simply say to you yeu tart again Forget that you ever did wrong You Youcan Youcan can enn start all over It Is le not loo too late Any person reading this column col rol should remember this You Vou have hue all the power In the uni universe 1 erae verse orse behind you OU when you have ve God dad lie He Is le willing to lo Invest that power flower In you and with you ou It Is II not too late Stop Slop right now and say ea I t win will never be the same sarno again From Irom this moment on I give myself unreservedly to God I give Him my thoughts my ambitions my ideas my health my strength and my future What I 1 have failed to do God can help me do What I have wanted to lo be bo God will w help me to lo be I can and will w do all things through Christ I which me As the Bible nible teaches teach os us u. that God does not condemn us then let us UI not condemn ourselves Rise IUle up I Lets Let's start out again I t |