A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

DON’T L£T CO ! Tun power to hold on, after the “giv-ing-up point ’’ has arrived, is the power which has distinguish!d all men who have done anything great. It is easy enough to give up—at the “ giving-up point.’’ it’s holding on that takes pluck. The " giving-up point ” had surely arrived for Carlyle, when the servant girl used his precious manuseript---tho first volume of the “ French Revolution’’—with which to kindle the fire. Put he didn’t give up, though it took him many weary, toiling months to reproduce what had been burned t> ashes in a lew minutes. The giving-up point ” bad also surely come to Audubon, tlit* great artist who, alter years of forest, life, bad two hundred of Itis priceless drawings destroyed by mice. It was his “giving-up point.” His own word tell us how near he came to giving up. “A poignant flame.” he said. “ pierced my brain like an arrow of lire; but at length moral strength woke within me.'’ Ah! that was ii which prevented him giving up at the “ giving-up point.” It was moral strength which sent him plunging into the iorost once more after the “giving-up point-” <'• his lithad come. The “giving-up point” is the danger point m the lives of men. Weak men give up, and fail. Strong men hold on —and win.