Getting Out of Life What We Put In
It was Dr. Holland who said that we get out of life what we put into it. It is likewise true that we usually get what we go for. There was a certain school in this land some years ago that would not take a student who had no definite purpose in view. Sometimes the rule seemed to be rather arbitrary, but the principal was rigid. He contended that a student who was aimless would be a poor student, and would not be a credit to the school or of much use in the world. Some who were refused were turned to a consideration of life in new aspects, while not a few determined upon a course, and then sought admission to the school. It may have been a narrow conception of education, but it contained a principle many of us need to learn. What are you going for? Nothing? Then that is precisely what you will get. It does not follow that every caprice of the heart will be satisfied; but it does follow that every earnest purpose of life will find realization in some way. What a great majority of young people need to-day is simply this: Going for something; going for it steadily, persistently, through sunshine and rain, accepting opportunities, making opportunities, keeping at it. To such a sturdy heart there is sure to come a rich reward.—Baptist Union.