Show HERE ME ARE THREE WORDS FOR YOU TO PASTE IN YOUR HAT by john anderson andersen jayne read these three words ability reliability stab stability ity aloud paste them in your hat place them in your mirror bury them deep in your heart think about them memorize them let each ol of them give you its pecullar peculiar message ability is talent reliability is honesty stability is consecration when you have honestly consecrated dour our talent to the end in view there is little danger that you will lail fail in the accomplishment ot of that purpose nearly all men have ability in some direction every man knows how bow to do some one thing well jimmie the office boy and kittle kittie the stenographer have their varying abilities which it AL p pursued Z would lead them to success reliability is not quite so common a possession though men in the mass are as a rule reliable the majority of men are not thieves you can trust nine men out of every ten but when you come to hunt for the men who use their ability in dependable ways they may not be so easy to find stability is a rare gift few men possess the spirit and the determination to stick to the thing until the last gun is fired stick to is not found in every life most men are desultory in their work jumping from ono one thing to the other wondering why they do not attain have iou studied that word desultory it comes to us through the latin and in it there is tile the picture of a goat on the hillside jumping from cliff to cliff in search of green grass but never tarrying long enough to nibble and eat all there is in the place where at present he may be resting men lien are like the goat capricious that is the majority of them they lean from one thing to the other they fail to stick they are finicky they lack mental b balance a and the quality of soul that enables them to extract from the worl work in hand all of its advantages opportunities port unities blessings and harvests they are like the boys gathering blackberries ck they are not content to exhaust the possibilities of one patch before they jump to the next nest the possibility of the next is of greater attractive power than the certainty of the present many a man has the ability to win for himself a competence even from unfavorable surroundings who cannot be trusted to remain with the stuff many a man is thoroughly reliable but lacks stability the heroic soul quality to fight it out it if it takes all summer never was there such opportunity for the oung man inan of today possessed of a moderate ability in any given line to achieve success it if he is so possessed of 0 the open olten sesame of 0 the combination of words that we are today studying study the lives of the men who have made failure of life shipwreck of opportunity and you find that their failure is wrapped up in one of the last words that you are now thinking about they have lacked reliability they have failed in stability you today are wondering why you do not succeed whylie why it is that others with less natural ability than yourself are forging to lo the front while you are being left in the rear you have ability yes have you reliability can your employer trust you aye can you even trust yourself have you lit the power to begin cont continue inui and then hang on ability reliability stability pon der oner mer these w words think about them let them abide with you these are talismanic words theall sorption of their purpose and spirit into your life will bring you to the wide open gates of a successful life inter mountain republican |