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Show Failure in life is always a tragedy, a tragedy that touches every o.ie, for virtually every one wishes to succeed. And yet in spite of the importance of succeeding not many young men who have still to win their spurs have more than the vaguest ideas about the main elements of success. A moment's thought makes it evident t lat these are as various as the ends that men have in view. Wealth, holiness, holi-ness, honor, love, blessedness, power j all are different aims; and as the p-jaks j to b 5 scaled are so different, there is! no single outfit that is suitable for the climbing of them all. The loftiest and I most imposing, holiness, blesseines", j love form, indeed, a group wholly distinct dis-tinct from the rest. They require and c ;rtainly deserve a special stuly, but they h ,'cutside the region to be travers ed in this article. Here we are concerned con-cerned only with such objects of ambition ambi-tion as wealth, hon.ir, po wer and social usefulness. How much or how little the successful success-ful scaling of these peaks may be expected ex-pected to contribute to the happiness of the climber we need not stop to inquire; in-quire; it is enough to notice that ea. h is capable of making a substantial contri bution to happiness if its beneficent tendency ten-dency is not nullifiedby some countervail in force. It requires only the barest capacity ca-pacity for keeping your eyes open to facts to see that neither health, nor wealth, nor honor, nor power, nor even the combination of them all, leads necessarily to happiness. In the case of all cf them the interest inter-est of the pursuer is likely to be to much centered in self, whereas happiness happi-ness demands some interest large enough to take a man outside himseK. This is set forth most strikingly in the Scriptural paradox that he who would save his life must lose it a profound truth that has been recognized not only by the religious, but by many to whom religion makes no appeal. |