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Purpose. 



In addition to what has already been said concerning the 

 desirability and value of purpose, let us consider, as sub- 

 divisions, foresight, plan and ends. The man with foresight 

 has a great advantage over his fellowman who has it not. 

 About everybody is blessed with hindsight. But the ideal 

 man of hindsight is found in the little coterie of loafers 

 hanging about the country grocery store of a Saturday 

 night. Who of us has not seen him, and who has not 

 heard the wisdom expounded by this wiseacre? 



Foresight can be cultivated. The man of purpose sees 

 this — sees the advantage to be derived, and soon becomes 

 himself a man of foresight. He also becomes a man of plans. 

 He plans wisely and hopefully for the future. He not only 

 has his life plan, but he has a plan for each year, another for 

 each month, another still for each day. Great indeed is the 

 advantage of all this. Labor shaped to the accomplishment of 

 an object, no hesitation, no lost time, blow follows blow, all 

 blows count, wonders are accomplished, and all this while his 

 neighbors are hunting, fishing, or talking about him or some- 

 body else in the neighborhood. The ends accomplished 

 by the man of purpose are not always what he intended them 

 to be. Man proposes, but God disposes. This should 

 discourage no one, however. Nine times out of ten success 

 is attained, if not just in the way we plaDned, still, in some 

 other and very likely on the whole equally satisfactory way. 

 Life at all events has not been without its fruits ; it has been 

 worth the living. 



Love of Calling. 

 Love of calling involves adaptability to calling. Wherever 

 there is a will there is a way. Adaptability follows love in 

 natural sequence. But love for farming does not necessarily 

 imply that one will love all the details of farm life, or that 

 he will not be called upon to do much that is unpleasant and 

 distasteful to him. And he who has not learned the valuable 

 lesson disciplining him to cheerfully perform this sort of 

 work, has missed one of the most important conditions of 

 success. There is great advantage to be derived from love 

 for one's calling; it is an important esseutial to success. 



