BUSINESS LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13701, 18 March 1908, Page 9

BUSINESS LIFE.

A CHANCE FOB ALL. I'lieni; is just one type of young man of whom I almost despair-— he one who thinks that lie has no chance in life. In the daily grind he, has let all nerve and enthusiasm ooze out. He is sour and morose, and refuses to look on the sunny side of life. You tell him how others situated as ho is have, worked their way up. and his only comment- is. "dust a. lucky hit" or " He's just a lucky dog." fin can help a fellow, no mallet what, his faults or how many, in whom the spark of enthusiasm is alive, lor he has the will to help himself. You cannot help one iii whom the spirit of enthusiasm is dead and who lacks the will to help himself. From on! of my experience I'can dig up for vou no message more valuable, than this: Look on the sunny side of life, for the dark will turn up without hunting, and keep on doing your level best. ) do not- care how desperate your state, may be, though your clothes may be in tatters; though meal-time means pulling the bell buckle to another hole, and though tin; setting sun may simply be a signal lor the. beginning of a weary hunt for some place to lay your head. 1 say to you, though 1 know how bitter and discouraging the tight is, out in the wide world there is some place for yon and someone ready to lend a helping hand. You have been told, no doubt, time and again, the life stories of men who, starting under discouraging conditions ot poverty, have fought their way to the possession of great wealth. 'these stories carry their lesson. It seems to me. however, that many of them have a tendency to over emphasise the attainment of wealth' as the measure of success in life, and to foster the spirit of selfishness which in most of us is nor, a, feeble plant requiring the nourishment these talcs old. A man may rise from direst poverty to greatest wealth, and yet by true standards hi:" life may 1"- a failuie. Xo man's life is a success, no matter how great the wealth he may accumulate, or how high tie- heights he may reach in other directions., unless, in his upward climb he lias lifted others with him.