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Show TRUST TOO MUCH TO LUCK Few Have Proper Preparation for Work Which They Undertalco to Do in Life. Many persons go through life for a long time with a veil, as it were, obscuring ob-scuring their clear vision. They do not understand life as It is; they prefer to try to make of it what they think It slrould be in order to satisfy their ambitions; am-bitions; they do not like t lie obstacles that bar their paths; they want the right of way and cannot understand why they may not always have it. It '9 a difficult thing to make headway In any undertaking when we are compelled com-pelled to grope in the darkness and feel our steps. We do our best, perhaps, per-haps, but even so we make mistakes and set ourselves far back in oilr endeavors en-deavors simply because we are not prepared pre-pared for the work in band. No one mov ovon limiA tn n ccoi i o 1 1 i sh petillv worth while results unless lie understands under-stands the needs of the task in hand hnd is prepared to meet them. Good preparation is the foundation for our lifework, and unless our foinidalious are solid it is impossible lo build strongly upon them fof the future. That is why so many of us make such sorry failures of life. We have had nothing on which to build. The flimsy little base upon which wc seek to set our lifework is not large enough to bear the hard strain of earnest effort. ef-fort. It gives way under Ihe first heavy pressure and we find ourselves In the dark"! Again we begin to feel our way and again we trust to luck to get results that will be worth having. Charlestown News and Courier. |