Where duty calls in life’s conflict,
There is your place!
Where you may think you are useless,
Hide not your face.
God placed you here for a purpose,
Whate’er it be;
Know He has chosen you for it:
Work loyally.
One of the finest secrets of success lies in finding one’s true place. Many a life with splendid qualities comes to little because it fails in this regard. Many a man, who struggles through years in a profession and never rises to distinction, never accomplishes anything that gives satisfaction to himself or to his friends, would have won a worthy record in some line of business or in a trade. There are men who imagine they have talents for almost any kind of calling, that they could do almost anything that man can do. But the truth is that no man has in him a university of qualification. Every man has a talent for something. There is one thing he can do well, if he trains himself for it.
Probably mothers spoil a good man lives by trying to be their divinity. They decide that their boys shall be ministers or doctors or artists or inventors, and teach them in infancy what they are going to be in life, regardless of what their natural gifs may be. The result is that the boys grow up without being free to think for themselves, biased and constrained toward some calling for which perhaps they have no natural fitness whatever.
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