RELY ON YOURSELF | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 2, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 14.

RELY ON YOURSELF.

NOTHING better could happen to the young man who has the right kind of gift than to be thrown on the world and on his own resources. A well-to-do judge once gave his son one thousand dollars, and told him to go to college and graduate. The son returned at the end of the first year, his money all gone, and with several extravagant habits. At the close of the vacation the judge said to his son,—

“Well, William, are you going to college this year?”

“I have no money, father.”

“But I gave you one thousand dollars to graduate on.”

“It is all gone, father.”

“Very well, my son, it is all I could give you; you can’t stay here; you must now pay your own way in the world.”

A new light broke upon the vision of the young man. He accommodated himself to the situation. Again he left home, made his way through college, graduated at the head of his class, studied law, became governor of the State of New York, entered the cabinet of the President of the United States, and has made a record that will not soon die, for he was none other than William H. Seward.—Anon.