Secret Is My Power

SUCCESS OR FAILURE?

In the game of life, success or failure is up to us. "The world is an orchestra, and men are players," said Dr. William Mathews. "All of us are playing some part in the production of life's harmony----some wielding thw baton, and fired by the sympathy of lookers-on; others feeling that they are but second fiddles, humbled by conscious inferiority, and drudging on as the old treadmill horse used to plod through his monotonous task."

Too many people are like goldfish swimming around and around in a goldfish bowl, never getting anywhere---like the caged squirrel, who chases around his wheel until, at last exhausted, he finds himself just where he started. Successful Achievement will teach them that every germ of goodness will at last strugggle into bloom and fruitage, and that true success follows application of these twelve lessons that have been told and taught by many others from Solomon down. In these well-worn and trite topics lie "the marrow of the wisdom of the world."

"Life is not a game of chance," said Dr. Marden. "The Creator did not put us where we could be the sport of circumstances, to be tossed about by a cruel fate, regardless of our own efforts.