That’s How | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 18, 1868

“That’s How.”

AFTER a great snow-storm, a little fellow began to shovel a path through a large snow-bank before his grandmother’s door. He had nothing but a small shovel to work with.

“How do you expect to get through that drift?” asked a man passing along.

“By keeping at it,” said the boy cheerfully; “that’s how!”

That is the secret of mastering almost every difficulty under the sun. If a hard task is before you, stick to it. Do not keep thinking how large or hard it is; but go at it, and little by little it will grow smaller and smaller, until it is done.

If a hard lesson is to be learned, do not spend a moment in fretting; do not lose a breath in saying, “I can’t,” or “I do not see how;” but go at it, and keep at it. Study. That is the only way to conquer it. If a fault is to be cured, or a bad habit broken up, it cannot be done by merely being sorry, or only trying a little. You must keep fighting it, and not give up fighting until it is got rid of.

If you have entered your Master’s service, and are trying to be good and to do good, you will sometimes find hills of difficulty in the way. Things will often look discouraging, and you will not seem to make any progress at all; but keep at it. Never forget “that’s how!”