LUCK AND SUCCESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 119, 13 October 1914, Page 7

LUCK AND SUCCESS.

(By Dr. Orison .Warden.)

| "Fortune brings in some bouts that are not steer'd." People may say what they will about there not being any such tiling as "luck," or '•chance," but we must all admit there is such a' thing. Every schoolboy knows that there is a great advantage in being in the right piaee in just the nick of lime, and that being there is often a mailer of chance. What we call luck made Adolph L. Kline Mayor of New 'York city, just as the assassination of Mclvinley nude Theodore hoosevelt President of the United fStates, and just as it has put many people into positions which they perhaps never dreamed that they would ever reach.

When the late Timothy Woodruff, who was so recently stricken while delivering a speech at Carnegie Hall, in New York, was the Republican leader in Brooklyn, he told his associates he imut have a German for sheriff. Air. Kline was suggested, but lie was not even a member of the lu publican Club in his district, and only joined through die persuasion of friends. This was Mi Klinu's iirst step toward the mayoralty, although he did not know it. He was really dragged into politics against his protest. Luck was quite a large factor in Wondrow Wilson's election to the Pre-sid-Micv.

But, after all, who will be foolish enough to say that man Ls the toy of chance, or that true success is' the result of accident or fate?

, No; luck is not God's price for success, nor do«s He dicker with men. When we consider the few who owe fortune or position to accident or luck, in comparison with the nias.-ic* who have to light every inch of the way to their own loaves, what are they, in reality, but tlie exceptions to the rule that character, merit and fate, or luck, or any other bogey of the invagination—control the destinies of men? The only luck that plays any great part in a man's life is that which inheres in a stout heart, a willing hand and an alert brain.

'We have heard a great deal about "Roosevelt's luck"; but what would it have availed him if he had not been ready for the opportunity when it came—if ho nad not trained hhnseu through years of persistent drill to grasp it—if he had not been prepared to make the best use of it?

When Governor John A. Johnson, of Minnesota, was asjeed: "How do you account for your success?" he answered simply: ''l just tried to make good." You will find, nine hundred and ninetynine times out of a thousand, that Hie man who tries to make good is the "lucky man." Young John.-on bad to fight against poverty, heredity and environment—everything that could be put forward as an excuse for "had luck," or "no chance," yet in his hard battle with fate he never onec faltered or specify what keeps them back; but they feel that there is something and they call it fate or hard luck, Perhaps these are the most bitter eoniplainers. They tell what wonderful tilings they would do if they could only get, free from the shackles which bin.i them to uncongenial work or compel them to support others, or which keep them on farms when they would go to the city where the great chances are. They feel that if luck were not against them they would soar into the ether of a larger opportunity and a completer life, as does the eagle when freed from a. cage. But— While they are saying, 'I am unlucky; there is no chance for me," and "1 can't, fate is against me," thousands of young men and women in this country with nothing like their opportunities are tearing the words "impossible" and "1 can't" out of their dictionaries.

or whined or complained that luck was against him

'Alien \ou see horses in a race, you know perfectly well that the one in the lead is ahead because he has run faster than the others, and you would not have much sympathy for the horse behind if he should bemoan his fate and declare l.iat the horse alu.ad had a snap! When you see anyone do'ng better than you are doing under similar circumstances, just say to yourself, "There must be some reason for it. There is a secret back of it, and I must find it out." Do not try to ease your conscience or lull your ambition by pleading "hard luck" for yourself or good fortune for another.

Napoleon said that "God is always m the .side of the strongest battalions." He is afways on tbe side of the best prepared, the best trained, the most vigilant, the pluckiest and the most determined.

Many people think that they are held back by some outward circumstances, that there is some influence that is keeping them from accomplishing all that they might accomplish if they were free. I often receive letters from young men and young women who complain bitterly that rtihey thus are kept back. In most cases the writers cannot define

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