10 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



And just for a moment, at this point, let us 

 consider what we mean when we speak of Success. 

 Not the acquisition of a large fortune for a life 

 of ease and selfish enjoyment. Contentment is not 

 success, for even the raggedest and most ignorant 

 negroes of the southland are both happy and 

 contented as a rule when their physical wants and 

 needs have been supplied. Mere contentment is 

 very often but another name for laziness and 

 selfishness. 



True and real success then, as the author sees 

 it, is only to be attained in the rendering of 

 service to others ; to the human race. 



Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, in his first 

 message over the wire exclaimed: "What hath 

 GOD wrought?" Giving a full measure of credit 

 to the Creator for the wonder that had at last been 

 brought forth through the cooperation of God and 

 Man ; Morse was one of the high types of success. 



Likewise Alexander Graham Bell in his invention 

 and perfection of the telephone, the Wrights with 

 the aeroplane, Moses, Samuel and in more modern 

 times Washington, Lincoln and Wilson as states- 

 men, Paul, Luther, Wesley, as preachers of the 

 Gospel, Shakespeare in the realm of literature, 

 Columbus as a navigator, William Perm, Benjamin 

 Franklin ; we could name them all day long. They 

 who have lived and labored to benefit the human 

 family are legion. And many there are whose 



