SERIOUS THOUGHTS
FAILURE. In our schooling failure bears its part. It is no useless drag upon us. In failure lies our best lesson. It teaches, it trains, it shapes, it endows, quite ns truly as our success. Nothing need be lost though failing, if only we are loyal to our lesson ; if only we be brave under the buffets of experience. Fruit is not here, b.ut fruit may come hereafter—fruit in abundance, out of the very failure which pressed us down and curtailed us and sharply disciplined us here. Hereafter it may be our failures that we shall bless most, as we see what they brought us. Who knows what is going on in secret, behind the very failures in others, which most provoke us 1 The soul is being tamed, broken, humiliated, but it may be receiving also, its gratification. Anyhow, it will not be the failure which distresses us, hut only the failure to use the failure to good purpose. Our failure--above all our noble failures—are part and parcel of our spiritual history, of our spiritual growth. When we go before our God the failures will go to the great account ; they will be elements in the judgment ; they will be as instrumental and effective as any of our successes, in determining our eternal lot. Rbv. Scott Holland.— (F).
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Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1593, 27 June 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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