ISSIG\XRYITADER Vol. 12 SYDNEY, JUNE, 1924 No. 6 NOTICE with incessant industry from the choicest rank ; his father was a butcher, and he stores of nature." himself in early life was a wool-comber. No second Sabbath programme is Disraeli was hissed when he first ap- He was, however, a close student. Sir provided for this month, as the Week peared in Parliament, and every sentence Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the was laughed at. But he did not become spinning jenny and the founder of cotton of Prayer has been appointed for June discouraged and mope and whine in soli- manufacture in England, was a 7 to 14, and Sabbath, June 14, is the tude. He persevered. Writhing under his barber. second Sabbath of the month. The humiliation and defeat, he said, " I have No greater preacher ever trod the earth Week of Prayer reading for that day begun several times many things, and have than the great apostle Paul. He endured succeeded in them at last. I shall sit the most incessant toil, and suffered ship- will therefore take the place of the down now, but the time will come when wreck, stoning, whipping, and other abuse. usual programme furnished for the you will hear me." And it did come. By Yet he speaks of his infirmities, and says second Sabbath, and the Annual Offer- persevering effort he forced his way to the that he was " in bodily presence weak." ing to missions will take the place of front, and arose to be one of the leading God helped His servant, and He will help men of England till at last he occupied a you. John Milton, author of " Paradise the usual monthly offering to missions. place where men laughed with him instead Lost," was blind, and an invalid early in of at him. His success was the result of life. Daniel Webster tells us there was one dauntless energy and unfailing persever- thing he could not do when a boy, and that ance. was to make a speech before the school. Missionary Volunteer Never, since the advent of sin, was com- The burning eloquence of this distinguished petition in every branch of industry so man was the result of hard, persevering Department fierce as now. Tireless energy is in work. George Stephenson, the engineer, demand. On every band we can see when addressing young men, said, " Do as wrecks ; on some hidden shoal or unknown I have done—persevere." . • . Missionary Volunteer Programme rock they have stranded. But we must The same perseverance should be shown in not falter because of these. God will the work of perfecting a Christian life, and First Week honour the right, and triumphantly vindi- proclaiming the gospel message to all the cate those who adhere to righteous princi- earth. If it is commendable in worldly Pushing to the Front ples. In this time especially we are matters, how much more in divine things ! exhorted to be diligent. " Seest thou a What marvellous light would dawn on our Opening Exercises. man diligent in his business ? he shall pathway if we would persevere in like " Perseverance." stand before kings ; he shall not stand manner in the study of the Bible I Shall " How to Achieve Results." before mean men." we not do so ? " The soul of the sluggard "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Won." G. B. THompsoN. desireth, and hath nothing : but the soul of " What It Costs." the diligent shall be made fat." " Hold Fast." G. B. THOMPSON. " Look Not Back." Poem': " The Man Who Wins." " Reaching the Goal." How to Achieve Results Closing Exercises. THERE is, perhaps, no greater mistake that a young person can make than to Nothing Ventured, Nothing Won suppose that in order to succeed, he must be OFTEN when we start to go somewhere, Perseverance endowed by nature with some special and are deferred by unfavourable weather talent. Some doubtless are ; but, un- indications, we find that we made a mis- IT has been truly said that there is no developed and unused, it will be of little take in not taking the risk and going on. royal road to success. The greatness which value. What counts most is to develop the The day clears up unexpectedly, and our we covet and admire in men is the result of talents we do possess with indomitable fear of getting wet has robbed us of a indefa igable push and energy. perseverance, and in spite of obstacles pleasure. Success grows out of struggles to over- hammer out success. Seeming defeat can many times be turned into a great victory. It is the same in all life. If one waits come difficulties. If there were no obstacles until all the conditions are just right for to surmount, there could be no success in his venture, he will never launch out. As the truest sense of the word. " Heaven " Thus at the flaming forge of life, Our future must be wrought ; the preacher says : " He that observeth the helps those who help themselves," is a wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth maxim we do well to remember. In order Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought." the clouds shall not reap." And the writer to succeed we must persevere through trials of the Proverbs observes, with a fine scorn : and obstacles, and many times practise the "The slothful man saith, There is a lion most rigid self-denial. A harvest can be We often hear it said that " where there's without ; I shall be slain in the streets." gathered only where seed has been sown. a will, there's a way." By unceasing Strenuous individual application is the effort we many times may force an opening There are risks that it is right to run. price we must pay for true distinction ; in a hitherto impregnable barrier. Many You may lose much ; but if you have a excellence has been forever placed beyond who have succeeded have been surrounded man's heart in you, you probably will gain the reach of indolence. Greatness cannot with the most unfavourable circumstances. much. There is a wholesome note in the be transmitted to another. One person, Environment, early training, lack of edu- old English lines of Montrose writing of himself, repudiated the idea of cation, were against them. Time and being " a genius," but attributed his again they failed, but they tried again. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, success to industry. " My mind is like a Sir Isaac Newton was the son of a poor beehive," he said ; " but full as it is of man, as was also the distinguished astrono- That dares not put it to the touch, buzz and apparent confusion, it is yet full mer Adams, who discovered the planet To gain or lose it all." of order and regularity, and food collected Neptune. Shakespeare was of humble —The Watchman. MISSIONARY LEADER JUNE, 1924 What It Costs It holds the memory of the wrongs, real eternally. I kept on. In the twentieth or fancied, that have been done to us; year that magazine accepted one of my IT costs always unsparing toil to carve from which we draw the grudges, the ill articles." the beauty God shows us as an ideal for will, the hatred, the desire and purpose to After more than ten years of wandering our life. It costs self-discipline, anguish, "get even," that are harboured in so through the unexplored depths of the pri- ofttimes, as we must deny ourselves, and many hearts. These are the things that meval forests of America, in the study of cut off the things we love. Self must be more than all else fill the soul with birds and animals, Audubon determined to crucified if the noble manhood in us is bitterness. publish the results of his painstaking ever to be set free to shine in its beauty, Look not back. We cannot advance in energy. He went to Philadelphia with a if the angel within the block is to be un- one direction while looking in another. portfolio of two hundred sheets, filled with imprisoned. Michael Angelo used to say, Before us lie the city of God and eternal coloured delineations of about one thous- as the chippings fell thick and fast from joys beyond the mind to imagine. These and birds, drawn life-size. Being obliged the marble on the floor of his studio, beckon us forward ; while behind are to leave the city before making final ar- " While the marble wastes the image things which, if looked upon and har- rangements as to their disposition, he grows." There must be a wasting of boured in the mind, will surely turn all placed his drawings in the warehouse of a self, a chipping away continually of the they touch to bitterness and salt, and friend. On his return, in a few weeks, he things that are dear to our human nature, leave us anchored in the desert of sin. found to his utter dismay that the precious if the things that are true and pure and " REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE " fruits of his wanderings had been utterly just and lovely are to be allowed to come destroyed by rats. The shock threw him out in us. The marble must waste while LEON A. SMITH. into a fever of several weeks' duration, but the image grows. It is not easy to be- with returning health his native energy come a good man, a Christly man. Yet came back, and taking up his gun and we must never forget that it is possible.