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Show Ml IB J CAUSE HIS HIED IE GHEftTTHIKS Edison said that what bored him most was to have to listen to everybody every-body tell him that they had thoueht of his Inventions before he did, but that they had not carried their thoughts into execution. He said this common experience led him to think that it was In perseverance and grit that he differed most from other men. He continued to the end while thev were content with the passing fancy. Grant was a great soldier because ho would fight it out on that line, even if it took all summer. The early poems and stories of the masters of literature did not differ so much from their contemporaries, but they kept on writing. The first pictures pic-tures of the great artists and the first compositions of the great composers were mediocre but they plugged on. Many men desired a united Itnlv but Cavour determined to levetoj one. He refused to either see or know defeat. He gave twelve yea?, of unnoticed, unselfish labor before could see any sign of results? Then he mastered the science of engineering engineer-ing that he might advocate the Mont nni8 r"" aDd Unlt0 Ital-V w?thu-rope. w?thu-rope. He became proficient in agriculture agri-culture and mining that he might lid the people to develop tho natural re-sources re-sources of the country. He was Stf orator but he fired studiously and eloquence elo-quence of Mazzini for the caW iTt He Crld not d in batUe bytb!ilr?,Ufled a11 the military SDlr? of Garibaldi to lead the. ifaii, aPlrl- defeat to victory. He'was'greaT ample of what sheer pluck and ' termination can do Manv Ud de' eager to see Italv united an.i rl? 0B gjrdld not keep toft S3 determined to follow him and VLtTZ a few really did so. Many i&J 'edge him as the great teacher todav and yet few really make him the great teacher of their lives. It is not so much the public confession of the Hirist as it is the continuous daily living In the environment of his 'bought and teaching that makes for bis character in us The word assassin originally meant i band of Moslems who frenzied themselves them-selves with hasheesh and obeyed their leader They thought they were saints of Allah, as frenzied with the Irug they lived but to do the will of heir leader Their constant faithfulness faithful-ness to their leader made their name yo be a dreaded one. The world waits for a band of men who will as com-Dletelydo com-Dletelydo the will of the great leader Christ, j It. was theew who followed Hinst sincerely that' made the word Christian first to be a word of mean-'ng. mean-'ng. It will be a word of meaning in ny tlmo and place the Christ is fol-owed fol-owed truly again When the Ideas of Christ are Followed, as Edison follows fol-lows his Inventive thoughts, then will a like result be attained. |
