A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

TRY LINCOLN’S PLAN! A nit,ui am Lincoln got, there, but it wasn’t easy. Lineuln succeeded be, cause lie bad the rigid, menial attitude towards failure, and because be knew that a real man never lets go till lie’s dead. As a young man Lincoln first tried his hand at polities. He stood for Illinois, and was beaten. He then tried his hand at business, and (failed, and, what is more, iL took him nearly twenty-live years lo square the debts which this failure-cost him. He then applied for a position in the American Civil Service. Once more lie failed. Again he became a candidate ro> political honours, and failed once more. When nearly 50 years of ago, he became a candidate for the VicePresidency. of the United States, only to fail again. A little later he was beaten again in the Presidential elections. What a record! Failure upon failure! And yet this man was destined to leave a record of success supreme in the annals of American statesmanship. Suppose Linelon had left off trying when he was fifty. His would have been a history of failure. It was because he kept on trying after he was fifty that the world agreed, when his Secretary of State said of him as he lay wrapped in the majesty of death : “There lies 1 the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen/’ Lincoln made his failures show him the road to success. If you have failed so far, try Lincoln’s plan. —M. PI.’ESTON STANLEY.