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The Successful Man in His Manifold Relations with Life

The Successful Man in His Manifold Relations with Life

Ransom, J. Clinton

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ISBN10: 1458939111
ISBN13: 9781458939111
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.32 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... by. The time, effort, and thought of the mother were completely absorbed in her family. Indeed, her children occupied her mind to the exclusion of everything else. This was most surely not what she had chosen, but it was duty, and perform it she did without murmuring or repining. The other young woman married a farmer, with the expectation of living out her days as a farmer's wife. But there came a voice to the husbandman, as he thought, bidding him preach the gospel. He left his farm-life, entered the pulpit, and became a useful, worthy preacher, but the wife hung like a dead weight upon the wheels of progress. She did not marry a preacher. She had not chosen to be a preacher's wife, and she would not face the new duties, and did not. She spent her life in hopeless sighing and great unhappiness. She made her own life and that of her husband wretched beyond degree. She did not perform the duty that lies next. All of us are nearly in the position of these two women. We are either doing the drudgeries of a work that we did not choose, or else we are repining for the glorious career that we did choose. Many of us are virtually chained to the oar; our duties are distasteful, and the burdens of life rest heavily upon us. But the chain holds us to duty, and we cannot leave the post where providence has placed us. It is of little avail to be solemn, unwilling, and rebellious. It is only a waste of effort and force. The true need of the case is to do with our might what our hands find to do; to do it cheerfully and without sorrow. It is here that the argument for the preparation for useful living rests with force. If a man has schooled his powers to the endurance of work, if he has made them strong and capable, then, surely, he can meet the drudgeries of professional ...

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