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In every great city and in every small town there should be a
monument to time. Young children should be taken to see it,
clergymen should preach at the foot of it on the sacred
importance of the few hours of activity given to us here. As the
sand runs through an hour glass, so you run your short race on
this earth. That passing sand means the passing of your chances
for making your life worth while. Instead of thinking how you
WILL pass the time, cross-examine yourself and ask yourself how
you HAVE passed the time thus far.
What did you do last year--what use did you make of the time as
it went by? What did you do yesterday? What are you going to do
to-day? You possess a mind organized for practically unlimited
thinking and studying. How many of your hours do you live as a
thinking, studying man? How many do you live on a par with an ox
chewing his cud in the field?
The ox does not waste HIS time. It is his business to grow fat
and produce beef. He uses every hour. It is your business to
use your time in the development of your mind, in dealing with
the duties and problems that are put before you.
Every young man can make a success if he will really look upon
each hour as an OPPORTUNITY, and cease to look upon the hours as
useless things, to be thrown away.
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