EMPHASIS IN LIFE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2710, 23 November 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)

EMPHASIS IN LIFE.

Soil K people find fault because a few have so much influence in politics, in business. in society, and even in church. They seem to forget that it is inevitable and. applies even in childhood and in youth. In every school and on every playground a few dictate the policy, and lead iu fiiu and hard work, in thought and action, because of the emphasis they place uptm what they say and do. It is skill in emphasis that usually determine* success. If it is known how anyone emphasizes life it is eay to estimate the probabilities of success. Emphasis iu life is much like emphasis iu reading. The first principle in each case is to emphasize ideas, not words. There is a radical difference between the two. .Superintendent George Howland of Chicago rend ' Evangeline' to one of the grammar schools of that city on Friday afternoon a year ago, and I chanced to be present when the pupils read their compositions on the reading. A bright little foreign boy wrote "I. thought so great a man would read very loud, but he didn't. I thought he would emphasize it lots, but he never emphasized a word ; but oh, my, didn't ho picture the story, though ! I shall see it as loim as I live." This is a vivid illustration of emphasis upon ideas rather than words. This principle holds in life. Success depends upon magnifying essentials. Some people tire us in their talk because Lliev dwell upon minor details about which we care nothing, while otliers fascinate us by giving the pitch of a story, so that we do not wish a word ommitted. This is a laud and age of progress. A man's life must show on the face of it that every word and act tells, and that he has not done the best he will ever do.—Rev. A. E. Winship, in Golden Rule.