THE MEN WANTED by F. E. Clark, D.D.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 31, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 13.

THE MEN WANTED.

By F. E. Clark, D.D.

In a railroad depot in a small Minnesota town, we recently saw, posted up, amid railroad time-tables and flaming advertisements of highly colored routes, the following placard: “A prominent railway official of many years’ experience has reached the conclusion that it is not the most brilliant men in the railway service that are the most successful, but rather those who make the fewest mistakes.” There is a world of truth for other people than railroad men condensed in those few lines. The world has comparatively little use for exceptionally brilliant men; but there is plenty of room at the top, and all the way down, for men of sound common-sense. Many a ‘bright’ man’s blunders dim the radiance of his good things. No, the world is not hankering for more brilliant men; but it is greatly in need everywhere of level-headed men who make few mistakes.—F. E. Clark, D.D.