Part 23

Is Prohibition Paternalistic? Byline: Rev. Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Living Church_. Vol. 60 No. 11. Milwaukee: Morehouse Publishing Co., Jan 11, 1919. p. 354. Notes: 1) Control the conduct of other people; essay, “Is It Nothing to You,” 2) “as it will soon do;” Congress passed the 18th Amendment to the Constitution on Dec 22, 1917, and the necessary three-fourths of states ratified it by Jan 16, 1919. [Then, the necessary three-fourths of states ratified the 21st Amendment by Dec 5, 1933, thereby repealing the 18th Amendment.] (https://www.fjc.gov/history/ exhibits/prohibition-in-federal-courts-timeline)

“It was an innocent-faced maid”. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Richmond Daily Palladium_. Richmond, IN: Palladium Printing Co., Mar 5, 1906. p. 4.

The Laboratory Test. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 79 No. 2. New York: The American Tract Society, Feb 1921. p. 36. Note: Ancient singer’s challenge (Psalm 34:8–9).

The Laughing Man. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 77 No. 5. New York: The American Tract Society, May 1919. p. 72. Notes: 1) Jean Valjean; essay, “The Redemption of Jean Valjean,” 2) “[God] has never hesitated to go to any length for the sake of people. Such is also the spirit of those who enter into the secrets of His plans.” (cf. John 15:12–13).

Let the Minister Know Life. Byline: Rev. Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Expositor_. Sep 1929. p. 1338. Note: Poem, “Patchwork.”

Life’s Backgrounds. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 77 No. 10. New York: The American Tract Society, Oct 1919. p. 148. Notes: 1) “life is like a picture;” multiple poems in poetry book’s index under “Life,” 2) Life’s determining factors; essay, “Determinants,” 3) Whitewashing hidden faults (cf. Matthew 23:27–28), 4) Hard work hidden behind the success; poem, “The Lucky Man,” 5) Influencing another person’s life; poem, “Domsie.”

Life’s Handicaps. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 76 No. 2. New York: The American Tract Society, Feb 1918. p. 24. Notes: 1) Jesus heals paralytic let down through roof (Mark 2:1–12), 2) Jesus teaches about ensuring costs can be covered before starting to build (Luke 14:28–30).

The Light. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Indianapolis, IN. Source: _The Christian Advocate_. Vol. 90 No. 30. New York: Methodist Book Concern, Jul 29, 1915. pp. 1009–10. Notes: 1) Description of God as light (1 John 1:5), 2) Creation of light (Genesis 1:3), 3) A determinant created different outcomes between plants of the same family; essay, “Determinants,” 4) What will and will not stand the light (John 3:19–21, Ephesians 5:8).

The Line of Necessity. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 76 No. 7. New York: The American Tract Society, Jul 1918. p. 100. Notes: 1) Friendship; essay, “The Necessary Asset—Friends,” and poems: “Fade-Outs” and “Whatever he may wish or plan,” 2) Points from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:38–48).

Love’s Burdens. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 79 No. 1. New York: The American Tract Society, Jan 1921. p. 4. Notes: 1) The sick need a physician (Matthew 9:12), 2) Jesus prays in garden (Matthew 26:36).

“A man entered a downtown street car”. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Richmond Daily Palladium_. Richmond, IN: Palladium Printing Co., Mar 5, 1906. p. 4.

The Message of an Empty Tomb. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Northwestern Christian Advocate_. Vol. 68 No. 15. Chicago: The Methodist Book Concern, Mar 31, 1920. pp. 368–69. Notes: 1) Joseph of Arimathea buried Jesus (Matthew 27:57–60), 2) “the valley and the shadow of death” (cf. Psalm 23:4), 3) Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead (John 11:1–44), 4) The gospel as truth; essay, “The Light,” 5) Jesus’s ideal; essay, “The Christ of the Sea.”

The Message of the Washington Monument. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 77 No. 2. New York: The American Tract Society, Feb 1919. p. 31. Note: Pretense and unreality; poem, “The Close-Up.”

The Minister and His Reading. Byline: Rev. Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Expositor_. Apr 1928. pp. 764–66. Notes: 1) “speaks with authority and not as the Scribes” (Mark 1:22), 2) “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12), 3) Temptation of Jesus (Matthew 4:1–11), 4) Jesus states he has overcome the world (John 16:33), 5) Disciples’ encounter with Jesus on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13–35).

The Modern Grandmother. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Woman’s Home Companion_. Vol. 42 No. 3. Springfield, OH: Crowell Publishing Company, Mar 1915. p. 78.

Music and History. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Princeton, IN. Source: _The School News and Practical Educator_. Vol. 34 No. 6. Taylorville, IL: Parker Publishing Company, Feb 1921. pp. 370–72.

The Nearness of Destiny. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 79 No. 2. New York: The American Tract Society, Feb 1921. p. 29. Notes: 1) Procrastination; poem, “The Umbrella Mender,” 2) Kingdom of God; poem, “The Gateway of the Kingdom,” 3) Jesus stating “the Kingdom is at hand” (Matthew 10:7); poem, “Imminence,” 4) Daily events marked by eternal significance as well as cause and effect; poem, “Charge Account,” 5) “The Christ of revelation” is at least based on the reference in the essay’s first sentence [Revelation 1:1, “The revelation of Jesus Christ...” (New American Bible)], 6) The Hebrew prophet (Amos 4:12), 7) “shortly come to pass” (Revelation 1:1), 8) Life events mentioned in last paragraph; several poems in poetry book’s index under “Life.”

The Necessary Asset—Friends. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Boys’ World_. Vol. 16 No. 48. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook Publishing Company, Dec 1, 1917. p. 4.

Newer Conceptions of Religion. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Princeton, IN. Source: _The Congregationalist_. Vol. 107 No. 26. Boston: The Pilgrim Press, Jun 29, 1922. p. 821. Note: Refrain from living in the past; essay, “The Sword that Keeps the Past.”

The New Philosophy. Byline: Clarence Flynn. Source: _The Editor_. Vol. 52 No. 2. Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, Jan 25, 1920. pp. 116–18.

The Objective of Service. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Northwestern Christian Advocate_. Vol. 70 No. 26. Chicago: The Methodist Book Concern, Jun 14, 1922. p. 657. Notes: 1) “Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;” from Oliver Goldsmith’s poem, “The Deserted Village” (1770), 2) “new heaven and a new earth” (cf. Isaiah 65:17–25).

The Obligation of Good Cheer. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 74 No. 11. New York: The American Tract Society, Nov 1916. p. 195. Notes: 1) Essay, “The Laughing Man,” 2) “...that One in whose presence is fulness of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures forevermore.” (Psalm 16:11). [Jesus and joy (e.g., John 15:11).]

The Opportunity and Peril of the Writer. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Editor_. Vol. 48 No. 12. Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, Jun 25, 1918. pp. 409–11. Notes: 1) Peace and brotherhood making war impossible; poems: “The New Day,” “Brotherhood,” 2) Stowe’s first installment appeared June 5, 1851 (page 1, column 1), 3) Unlike his mentioning of Stowe’s work, Flynn doesn’t mention the first installment of Sinclair’s work; it appeared in socialist Julius Wayland’s paper, _Appeal to Reason_, February 25, 1905 (entire cover page), 4) “A derisive term...once elected a man president.” In Flynn’s later essay, “Words,” he associates the term “Log Cabin Harrison” with William Henry Harrison.

Our Blessings of Deliverance. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 80 No. 11. New York: The American Tract Society, Nov 1922. p. 166. Note: “Give us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11).

Paul’s Ideal Sufficient. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Indianapolis, IN. Source: _The Christian Advocate_. Vol. 93 No. 24. New York: Methodist Book Concern, Jun 13, 1918. pp. 734–35. Note: “a pillar and ground of the truth” may refer to the church of the living God (1 Timothy 3:15).

The Post-War Outlook for Literature. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Editor_. Vol. 50 No. 10. Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, May 25, 1919. pp. 74–76. Note: “various subjects down from the ethereal heights of mystical theory to the solid levels of plain thinking and everyday living;” essay, “The New Philosophy.”

Preaching to College Students. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Expositor_. Jun 1928. p. 983–84. Note: Poems: “The Builder v1924,” “The Builders.”

The Price of Liberty. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Western Christian Advocate_. Vol. 82 No. 6. Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, Feb 9, 1916. p. 130. Notes: 1) “the love which lays down its life for its friends” (cf. John 15:13), 2) temple’s veil was split (Matthew 27:51).

The Redemption of Jean Valjean. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Montreal Witness and Canadian Homestead_. Vol. 77 No. 34. Montreal: John Dougall & Son, Aug 23, 1922. p. 10. Notes: 1) Frenchman Victor Hugo published _Les Miserables_ in 1862, 2) Isaiah’s redemption (Isaiah 6:1–7), 3) Noah and the flood (Genesis 6–8), 4) Noah as drunkard (Genesis 9:20–21), 5) Silas Marner and Eppie are characters in _Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe_, an 1861 novel by Englishwoman Mary Ann Evans (pen name is George Eliot), 6) Self; poem, “The Trouble Making World,” 7) This essay is physically available at Flynn’s alma mater, DePauw University, in their Archives and Special Collections (https://depauw.libraryhost.com/ repositories/2/resources/1887); although the essay is undated, Flynn graduated from DePauw in 1911, 8) This essay is used as a positive example of certain elements of literary writing (Webb, Mary Griffin and Edna Lenore Webb, eds. _Famous Living Americans_. Greencastle, IN: Charles Webb & Company, 1915. pp. 8, 10–11).

The Religion of the New Age. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Bloomington, IN. Source: _The Homiletic Review_. Vol. 77 No. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, Mar 1919. pp. 192–94. Notes: 1) Essay, “Newer Conceptions of Religion,” 2) Prophecy of a new heaven and earth (Isaiah 65:17–25), 3) “It is with religion just as with science or philosophy;” essay, “The New Philosophy.”

The Riverside. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Our Paper_. Vol. 35 No. 1. Concord Junction, MA: Massachusetts Reformatory, Jan 6, 1918. p. 630. Note: ‛We rise by the things that are under our feet’ is from a poem (Holland, Josiah Gilbert. “Gradatim.” _Christian Science Journal_. Vol. 13 No. 5. Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, Aug 1895. p. 210).

The Road Uphill. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Youth_. Vol. 3 No. 9. Kansas City: Unity School of Christianity, Sep 1929. p. 26. Notes: 1) Zechariah speaks about avoiding the sins of their fathers (Zechariah 1:4), 2) Jesus reads His commission (Luke 4:16–21).

The Sabbath Desecration. Byline: Rev. Clarence E. Flynn, Indianapolis, IN. Source: _Western Christian Advocate_. Vol. 76 No. 18. Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, May 4, 1910. pp. 14–15. Notes: 1) Some Old Testament background on the sabbath (Exodus 16:16–30; 31:12–17), 2) “the apparent attitude of Jesus toward [the Sabbath]” (Matthew 12:1–8; Mark 2:23–28, 3:1–5; Luke 6:1–11), 3) “Our lonely Sinais must precede our deeds of leadership,” may refer to the commission of Moses (Exodus 3 thru 4:17), 4) Quoted lesson (Isaiah 30:15).

The Safe Foundations for a League of Nations. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 77 No. 7. New York: The American Tract Society, Jul 1919. p. 100. Notes: 1) WWI ended Nov 11, 1918. The League of Nations officially came into existence on Jan 10, 1920, 2) Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9), 3) Poems: “Brotherhood;” selfish ways and purposes: “The Measure of Life,” “A Trouble Making World.”

The Same Face. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Indianapolis, IN. Source: _The Christian Advocate_. Vol. 90 No. 18. New York: Methodist Book Concern, May 6, 1915. p. 604.

The School as a Reform Agency. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Princeton, IN. Source: _The School News and Practical Educator_. Vol. 34 No. 5. Taylorville, IL: Parker Publishing Company, Jan 1921. pp. 316–18. Notes: 1) “his first impulse to try;” poem, “The Secret,” 2) Just as a teacher’s “possession of great power is at once an opportunity and a peril,” so it is for a writer; essay, “The Opportunity and Peril of the Writer,” 3) “Most evils remain only because people do not realize that there is a better way;” essay, “The Yoke”, 4) Not all subscribe to “the natural position of authority occupied by the teacher;” poem, “The Modern Pupil,” 5) “the person who builds manhood and womanhood...is building the future;” poem, “The Teacher v1921.”

The School Teacher and the Republic. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _School News and Practical Educator_. Vol. 33 No. 10. Taylorville, IL: Parker Publishing Company, Jun–Jul 1920. pp. 588–89. Note: Many poems in poetry book’s index under “teaching.”

The Sense of the Human. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 78 No. 9. New York: The American Tract Society, Sep 1920. p. 136. Notes: 1) “realize the presence of people about us,” and later, “the kingliness of service;” poem, “Along the Road,” 2) “When we learn to be like Him, we shall possess the same viewpoint;” poem, “The Measure of Life.”

Should Prices Be Standardized? Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Dodge Idea_. Vol. 35 No. 8. Mishawaka, IN: Kenyon W. Mix, Aug 1919. p. 900.

Some New Facts About Alcohol. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Living Church_. Vol. 60 No. 9. Milwaukee: Morehouse Publishing Co., Dec 28, 1918. p. 289.

Some Overlooked Compensations in Teaching. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Popular Educator_. Vol. 38 No. 1. Boston: Popular Educator Company, Sep 1920. pp. 6–7. Notes: 1) Many poems in poetry book’s index under “teaching,” 2) “A man’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.” (cf. Luke 12:16–21); also, many poems in poetry book’s index under “values,” 3) “One cannot long conceal a lack of mind and soul with clothes and paint” (cf. Matthew 23:27–28).

Some Principles of Efficiency. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Boys’ World_. Vol. 16 No. 38. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook Publishing Company, Sep 22, 1917. p. 6. Notes: 1) Selfishness; poems: “A Trouble Making World” and “I Want,” 2) Thinking and right judgments; poem, “Prayer for Normal Men,” 3) Acknowledging others’ minds; poem, “Minds,” 4) Striving to be right; poem, “Let Us Be Right,” 5) Talents as a resource; poems: “I am not eloquent” and “Iron,” 6) “the man who hides his single coin in a napkin” (Luke 19:11–26), 7) Purpose in life; poem, “Why We Are Here,” 8) Getting at a task; poems: “Have You Tried?” and “The Umbrella Mender,” 9) Staying on a task; poems: “Almost” and “A Second Wind,” 10) Doing things well; poems: “Doing It Well,” “The Engineer,” and “The Section Foreman,” 11) Getting at a task, staying on it, and making progress; poem, “The Secret.”

Some Problems of the Preacher. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Expositor_. Sep 1928. p. 1306. Note: Episode involving Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10:1–5).

Some Stories About Beethoven. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Uplift_. Vol. 7 No. 7. Concord, NC: The Board of Trustees of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School, Sep 1915. p. 14.

The Sound-Reproducing Machine as a Music Teacher. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Etude_. Vol. 37 No. 12. Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Co., Dec 1919. p. 789.

The Story of the Red Cross. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Sabbath Recorder_. Vol. 83 No. 25. Plainfield, NJ: The American Sabbath Tract Society, Dec 17, 1917. pp. 779–81. Notes: 1) This historical article is part of the collection because of the prose portraying the Red Cross as a means for uplifting humanity, 2) The source follows the article with a proclamation by President Woodrow Wilson—then President of the American Red Cross as well—encouraging ten million Americans to join the Red Cross “because it alone can carry the pledges of Christmas good will to those who are bearing for us the real burdens of the world-war, both in our own army and navy and in the nations upon whose territory the issues of the world-war are being fought out.” [For context, the US population in 1920 was 106,021,568. (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/ dec/popchange-data-text.html).]

The Successors of Tantalus. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 79 No. 8. New York: The American Tract Society, Sep 1921. p. 153.

The Sword that Keeps the Past. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _ Western Christian Advocate_. Vol. 82 No. 8. Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, Feb 23, 1916. p. 175.

The Three Agencies in Child Training. Byline: Rev. Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Western Christian Advocate_. Vol. 75 No. 24. Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, Jun 16, 1909. p. 10. Notes: 1) “the living and vital religion, to which even the school owes its being;” essay, “The School Teacher and the Republic,” 2) Ending quote (Luke 2:52).

Vibration as a Basis of Invention. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Indiana. Source: _The Wireless Age_. Vol. 6 No. 9. New York: Wireless Press Inc., Jun 1919. pp. 41–43. Notes: 1) Invention; poems: “How It Started,” “Inventive Genius,” and “Starting Things,” 2) Phonograph; essay, “The Sound-Reproducing Machine as a Music Teacher.”

What Can We Believe? Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Southwestern Christian Advocate_. Vol. 55 No. 42. Cincinnati: The Methodist Book Concern, Oct 18, 1928. p. 819. Note: Poems: beliefs (“The Things That I Believe”), God as Architect (“The Creator”), Jesus as Peasant of Galilee (“The King”), consequences (“Charge Account”), spiritual/soul (“The Divine Image”).

What Is Happening to Religion? Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Southwestern Christian Advocate_. Vol. 56 No. 4. Cincinnati: The Methodist Book Concern, Jan 24, 1929. p. 69. Notes: 1) “The technique of the scientific laboratory forbids compromise;” essay, “The Laboratory Test,” 2) Poem, “Imminence,” 3) Clarence E. Flynn was quoted on the topic of writing about science, “In trying to make science read like a fairy tale, one must not make a fairy tale of it.” (Leete, Frederick D. _Christianity in Science_. New York: The Abingdon Press, 1928. p. 137)

What Makes a City? Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Member, Kiwanis Club of Bloomington, IN. Source: _The Kiwanis Magazine_. Vol. 14 No. 2. Chicago: Kiwanis International, Feb 29, 1929. pp. 86, 108. Notes: 1) “a home life so beautiful and adequate as to require no substitutes;” poems: “Home v1921,” “The Making of Home,” 2) Responsibilities of home, school, and church; essay, “The Three Agencies in Child Training,” 3) Sanctity of the Lord’s Day; essay, “The Sabbath Desecration.”

The Will. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Western Christian Advocate_. Vol. 81 No. 38. Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, Sep 22, 1915. p. 922. Note: Poem, “The Tree.”

Words. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 75 No. 7. New York: The American Tract Society, Jul 1917. p. 104. Note: “out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth is sure to speak” (cf. Matthew 12:34).

Worship and Service. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Western Christian Advocate_. Vol. 82 No. 7. Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, Feb 16, 1916. p. 154.

The Yielding of Aaron. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _The Expositor_. Jul 1929. p. 1140. Notes: 1) Story of golden calf (Exodus 32), 2) Isaiah beholding God (Isaiah 6).

The Yoke. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn, Indianapolis, IN. Source: _The Christian Advocate_. Vol. 90 No. 25. New York: Methodist Book Concern, Jun 24, 1915. p. 853. Note: Jesus speaks of his yoke (Matthew 11:29–30).

APPENDIX 2: SELECTED QUOTES AND ZINGERS

Entries come from writings in this edition. The categories are not mutually exclusive, and intracategory entries are in no particular order.

Arts

The maker of fun whose humor was clean and genuine is a benefactor of his age, not to say a minister of righteousness. The hand of Justice lays an unfading wreath of honor upon the grave of the man who has helped to keep the world glad. He has planted roses where otherwise there would have been only thorns.

In all writing...two things are important. One is to say the right thing. The other is not to say the wrong one.

The opportunity [of the writer] is glorious and the peril is serious, because men will become what they think, and the world will conform to what they become. Thought life is fundamental.

In trying to make science read like a fairy tale, one must not make a fairy tale of it.

...the message and not the form is the immortal part.---After all, it does not seem to be to the advantage of the poet to be abjectly the slave of his style.

Attitude/Behavior

Whoever has a cheerful disposition has that much of a start toward positive and complete goodness.

Anyone can look happy when he _is_ happy, but only the unusual man can keep a merry countenance when hopes die, ties are sundered, dreams crash in shattered fragments, and the rich promises of life prove to have been empty mirages of vain expectation. The smile “that cannot come off” is the smile worth while.

A kindly tongue and a helping hand for all would soon garland the earth with sunshine and happiness.

A great nation or a great race is dependent upon the performance of great actions proceeding from great motives.

There is no getting further on the pathway to the higher life until one has first realized his own situation.

There is too little real conviction of sin in these days. We need the mirror held before us.

It is easier to overcome others than to conquer oneself.---Yet there is no truer greatness than that which comes from self-mastery.

Victory over material things is but a passing honor for the one who has failed to conquer himself.

Is there any reason why men should not do right? If duty were impossible, all creation would be a mockery and a moral contradiction.

But, though the facing of what may be imminent death requires great courage, it requires greater courage on the part of a strong man to sit by the window for twelve years watching the rest of the world go by without being able to join in its activity.

The ideal victory is not that which is won because the contestant had everything in his favor. It is rather the one which is gained in spite of the odds which the contestant had against him.

It is what men do that lives after them. There is an earthly side to immortality. The deeds done in the flesh make an epitaph which cannot deceive.

The will of man is not only his danger, but it is also his hope.

The voice with which we cry into the past is echoless, and ineffectual are the hands with which we beat against its closed portals.

Very swiftly [time] flies by us, but not so swiftly but that we can tinge it with the very color of our souls as it passes.

He shrank from [high duty and responsibility], as greatness usually does. True worth is seldom a candidate. In church and state alike, things go better when the office seeks the man.

...Jesus saved by believing in sinners.---The human heart shrivels under accusation. It blossoms under the radiant influence of someone’s confidence.

If they work on week days as they ought to work, they will not be found complaining of too much rest on Sunday.

The whole world has for a norm the attitude of the individual toward it.

One has but one chance at this life, and he has a right to make that one effort the best possible.

The waste of [any of a day’s 24 hours] is the same kind of a mistake as is the waste of money or property.---The person who keeps any one else waiting for him is guilty of theft.

Finding one’s true place in the world is a serious matter. Find out what you are good for; get ready to do that thing well; then do it with all your might.

If the thing you are doing is worth while, don’t give it up. The rewards of the game are won neither by the fine beginning nor the brilliant play, but by the steady endurance which holds on to the last. Life is one great endurance test.

You will never have cause to complain of any day that has witnessed real progress.

Whatever [life’s consequences] be called, it is not a penalty imposed, but a result arrived at.

Whoever succeeds must carry a cross of self-denial.