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Show The rovvder ud tlic Hullct. Under the above beading, tbe Improvement Im-provement Era for March bai the following fol-lowing Interesting article, which can ell be applied to all young men, whether engaged In religion! or other work: "Hat It ever occurred to yon that we aecd more energy in onr work? When an officer iaya that the boyi are Indifferent, that nothing can be done to arouse Utereat, or to get them to work or to atudy; that the Improvement Tnnd ii lagging, and ai to getting iub-striben iub-striben for the ra, that li quite out of the question; what Ii wrong? Tbeie are but tmall though very essential Incident! In-cident! ol the main work, but they Indicate In-dicate the ten-iency. There li little movement, or ipirit. to break tho dull monotony thore le an everlasting lack ol energy which li the powder of iuc-cen, iuc-cen, and the stuff that wlm. It wai that peculiar old phlloiopher, Joih Billing!, who laid: "Many men fall to reach tbe mark became the powder In them li not proportioned to the bullet," An Improvement anoclatlon anocla-tlon may bo called a heavy bullet. It requlrea conalderahle powder to puih It. It li a mighty battle field where all the vimot enthuslaiia may well find room for profitable action. If the three thoua-eodoffltero, thoua-eodoffltero, or more, would practlco ihootlnBthIihlg bullet of Improvement, tbe energy gathered In audi effort would aid them later In llfo In achieving iuc-ct iuc-ct In oilier wayi. Orleon Hwett Marden, the author ol isveral excellent workion luccess, talki pelntcdly to young men un thli subject of vim, and energy. Hli wordi arc very appropriate for our work t Nothing else, excepting honeity, li 10 much In demand In these dnya ae 'vim.' Everybody believea in It; everywhere weheari 'Give us a man who can do something j a man who hai puih i a man with tome iron In bla bteod ' Ability la worthless without the power to put It Into action. Resolution!, however good, are worthless without the energy necessary to carry them out. Push claira the track j people get out of the way of an energetic maa, Even email ability with great energy will accomplish accom-plish more than the greatest ability without energy. If fired frcm a tun with sufficient vollcity, a tallow candle can be shot through an Inch board, "On every band, we see fine yonng men and women falling, tbelr ability going to watte, Handing In equilibrium, for the lack ol 'force,' If we could only abake tbem up, put a little powder Into them, and act them going, they might amount to something, but without thla they are fallutaa. They teem te baye every oilier quality except the power of puahlng their way in the world, without which almost all their ability la waited. The finaat engine ever made would be absolutely useleaa wltbnnt power to propel pro-pel it, and dng tbe load tolls destination. "The world admtrea energetic men. Blow them thla way and that, and they only bend) they neyer break. Put ob-ataclea ob-ataclea lu their way, and they lurmonnt tbem. It la almost Imtoseiblo to keep auch men down. Trip one up, and Instantly In-stantly he lion hla feet again, bury him lu the mud, and almost Instantly he li up and at It again, Such men aa he build cities, establish echooli and hoe-pitali, hoe-pitali, whiten the ocean with aalla, and blacken the air with the smoke ef tbelr Industry. "The pathway of Hie lulrewn with wreck! of Ihose who have failed because they lacked thli propelling power. The have do power to climb or overcome. Tbegenlui of achievement leemi to have been left out of their make-up; their blood laeki the Iron ol energy, the force of accomplishment." |