HOW TO WIN OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1022, 12 July 1930, Page 8

HOW TO WIN OUT

THE QUIET CORKER

(Written for THE SUN by the Rev. Charles Chandler.) how, and acting according to instructions, are two very different matters. Between the Unowing and the doing, lies a whole lot of tedious discipline. In the vestibule qf an hotel in Awanui, I once found the following gambler's prayer, illuminated and suitably framed: — God help me to win ! But, if in Thy inscrutable wisdom Thou wiliest me to lose— Make me a g-ood loser. Learning how to be a good\ loser, is the first lesson in the school of “winning out." So few people can Ueep a stout heart, in the face of repeated failure. If you can make one heap of all your winnings, And risk them in one game of pitch and toss, Then lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never brea.the a word about your loss . . . There's something fine and noble in that Kipling sentiment—something that one does not generally come across in prayer books and religious manuals. The second lesson is in being prepared “to make one heap of ALL your winnings." Holding nothing back as did Ananias and Sapphira, not for fear of falling down and “giving up the ghost," but just because it doesn't pay. Self-renunciation is a hard lesson to learn, but it is fundemental in this problem of “winning out." Just look at those who have won. In every instance you will find this bold spirit of adventure; this “neck or nothing" sort of self abandonment. “Winning out" does not necessarily mean making money, but it certainly does mean self mastery, rising superior to every circumstance, and whether it be in a large emporium, or on a heap of wreckage, always being found ON TOP. NEXT WEEK: C.O.D.