Activity

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1875

ACTIVITY.—Don't be discouraged if you are unfortunate, and are lying flat on your back. Rise—stand erect, and persevere in something else. Fall again, if you can't do better, but never yield to despondency. As fast as you fall, spring to your feet again, and there will always be hope. Lie still—lament that you are in the ditch, and you but cause rejoicing among your enemies, and no one will render you assistance. Dig out—work hard—persevere, with a determination to earn a comfortable living, and you shall have it. Scores will fly to your assistance, who would help to cover you with reproaches, when writhing and lamenting over your misfortunes. The whole secret of success in life is—activity. To action—to action—and you will never see the day that you will need assistance, which will not be rendered in some shape or other. Activity is the life of man; it makes him for this world, to say nothing of the world to come.