FIFTY MILLION STRONG 



Was it thus that he plodded ahead, 

 Never turning aside? 

 Then we'll talk of the life that he led 

 Never mind how he died. 



So the thought that needs most emphasis is living a life 

 that will count for most, and the one thing required almost 

 above everything else in living such a life, is courage. To 

 master the little vexations of daily occurrence, to banish dis- 

 cord and promote harmony, to combat indifference and apathy, 

 to arouse enthusiasm, and to do the thousand and one other 

 things that are necessary to the accomplishment of results, 

 requires courage. Possibly no more eloquent words were ever 

 uttered on the subject of courage than those spoken by the 

 great Frenchman, Jean Jaures : " Courage consists in meet* 

 ing without flinching the tests of every kind, physical and 

 moral, which life brings. To have courage, in the infinite 

 disorder of the life which solicits us on all sides, is to choose 

 one occupation and to do it well, whatever it may be. Courage 

 consists in being both a practical man and a philosopher ; in 

 understanding one's work, systematizing it, examining it, and 

 yet in coordinating it with life in general. Courage consists 

 in watching one's machine for spinning or weaving so closely 

 that no thread may break, and at the same time in preparing 

 a more fraternal social order where the machines will be the 

 common servants of free workers. Courage consists in being 

 master of one's faults, not servant to them. To have courage 

 is to love life and regard death tranquilly, to strive for the 

 ideal and to undertake the real; to work and give ourselves 

 up to great causes without knowing what recompense, if any, 

 the inscrutable universe reserves for our efforts; to seek 

 truth and to proclaim it." 



The seventh essential of leadership is faith. It is quite likely 

 that almost everyone familiar with the Bible would, if asked 

 to select the half dozen greatest chapters of Holy Writ, make 

 the eleventh chapter of Hebrews one of the number. This is 

 the great chapter on faith. Faith is one of the big things of 

 life. All the achievements of earth worth while rest on a 



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