Believe and Climb by Optimist

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 19, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 32.

Believe and Climb

By Optimist

It was growing dark in the old barn; and to the child straying in out of the fading afternoon light, it looked more shadowy still. But some one was moving about in the hay overhead, and the little fellow came to the foot of the ladder and called: "Is you up there, grandpa? I want to come up." "All right, come along then," was the cheery response. But the little foot placed on the bottom of the ladder paused, and a troubled face was lifted toward the dim loft. "Grandpa, I can't see the top step." A reassuring laugh answered: "Put your foot on the round where you are, little man, and climb up. The last step is here, and you'll see it when you get to it." It was only the old lesson that we all need over and over again — the faithless cry we are always sending out to be allowed to see the end from the beginning; and the answer that in one way and another, by inspiration, by experience, is always coming to us: Climb from where you are. Take the step that is next above you, and wait for the one beyond to be revealed in its time. Believe and climb.