Make the Saw | AdventAI

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 5, 1907

“Make the Saw”

The boy stood beside his grandfather, his eager eye intent upon the little yellow violin which the old man’s busy fingers were shaping and finishing. “But you can’t finish it, grandfather,” said the lad, in despair. “You can’t make those little S-places.”

“Why can’t I make ’em?” demanded the grandfather, crisply.

“Because you haven’t got a saw fine enough for that.”

“Then I’ll make a saw,” said the old man. And he did make it.

Years afterward that boy, grown to be a well-known violinist, understood that his own mastery, not only of the violin, but of many of the problems of his life, was largely due to the force with which that one sentence took possession of his mind.

The world is full of people who “go so far and then give out.” But the great achievements of life, both in material and in spiritual things, are reached by those whose faith fails not at the last crisis, and who go on bravely and “make the saw.”—King’s Own.