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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 22, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 21.

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TRY IT.—If you speak the right word at the right moment; if you are careful to leave people with a good impression; if you do not trespass on the rights of others; if you always think of others as well as yourself; if you do not put yourself unduly forward; if you do not forget the courtesies which belong to your position, you are sure to accomplish much in life, which others, with equal abilities, fail to do. This is where the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. It is where you make people feel that you are unselfish and honorable, truthful and sincere. This is what society is looking for in men, and it is astonishing how much men are able to win for self-respect and usefulness who possess these qualities of good breeding. It is about the turning point of success in practical life.—Anon.
IT is not until the flower has fallen off that the fruit begins to ripen. So in our life, it is when the romance is past that the practical usefulness begins.