Men are ill-paid to-day, but their condition is Paradise compared
to the slavery of their predecessors. ----
You should daily criticise yourself and others, and do what you
can in your little sphere as preacher, politician, editor or
private individual to help along humanity's progress.
But remember always for your encouragement that the world is
improving steadily. It never stands still; it never goes
backward. And there are no limits to our future improvement,
thanks to our inborn love of what is right and to the steady
influence of EDUCATION.
A WHISKEY BOTTLE
How should a whiskey drinker talk to his son? If he talked as he
feels he would hold up the flat, brown bottle and say:
"My boy, you know that I am a poor man and have nothing to leave
to you or your mother.
"The difference between myself and the successful men who have
passed me is this:
"I have gone through life with this bottle in my hand or in my
pocket. They have not."
A man comes into the world prepared to do his share of the
world's work, well or ill, as his brain and his physical strength
may decide. Of all his qualities the most important practically
is BALANCE.
The whiskey in that bottle destroys balance, mental and physical.
It substitutes dreaming and foolish self-confidence for real
effort.
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