SUCCESS IN FAILURE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1926, Page 10

SUCCESS IN FAILURE

i (By K. R. Thompson, M.A.) I have written a good deal about sue cew. I have uot yet said anything about : failure, i I have no lime to waste with the man who fails because] lie is too lazy 1& make good. Hi; deserves to fail. Hut there ia a typo of failure for whom 1 have not only a great *ympaUvy but a great reepect. Many .1 man who is a failure in the eyes of the world is in reality a great success. These men do not boast, of their achievements. TJioy do not toll <vf Ilia '■ grim struggles against shypess, eejf-de- ; prociatkm, prejudice and the thousand I and one things that eeek to hold a man | Kick from hia goal. They plod on and fight their battles as | thc v v nine, and though they may never | achieve what the, world count* cuccess i lliry achieve victory—over themselves. They lone the material prize, but they gam their own souls. It often lakes a good deal of courage In play the game when there is every inducement to wink at evil and connive, with wrong. Playing the game may often result in the appearance of failure. Who dare, say that the player has not achieved immense success? I "For Clod Jn Hia goodness sees beneath i some failures great successes" sang the. poet. I can imagine no greater success than the attainment of mental and spiritual calm that comes from.jbe knowledge ; that a desperate battle with self ha» been fought and won.