The University of Hard Knocks

Life's

s that are

not the million. Perhaps it would make us lazy, selfish and unhappy. Perhaps we

oney, but how to get rid of money

t and then look at the tabby cat. The wild cat supports itself and the tab

of us we would go to wreck. Necessit

in preparing? Do you ever think of the times that orator tried to speak when he failed and went back to his room in disgr

hink of the years of struggle and overcoming necessary to produce that finish and g

ce the weakest peoples? Do you note that the conquering races are those that

disguise. People go to the devil with full pockets; they turn to God when hunger hits them. "Is not this Babylon that I have builded?" says the

heir heads before they can think, knock them down before they can stand, break

l before he would write his immortal "Pilgrim's Progress"? It ma

c the world will always hear? Do you remember that one author beca

d before he could see the way to real success. He had to be scourged and fettered to become the Apostle to the Gentiles. He, too, had to

hat success is ever the phoenix

diplomas in your hands, and when your relatives and friends say, "Success to you!" I

only way to say,

the Mo

year. We learn that you are cruel only to be kind. We learn that you are

eat bump that struck me one morning in Los Angeles. It seemed as th

thought I had nothing more to live for. When a dog is wounded he crawls away alone to

Mount Lowe that day.

Canyon, to the engineering miracle, the triangular car that hoists them out of the hungry

winds five miles on towards the sky. There is hardly a straight rail in the track. Every minute a new thrill,

is life depends upon the honesty of the man who drove the nails. He may wonder if the man was working by the day or by the job! He looks over the edg

farther upward. This is not the summit, but just where science surrenders. There is a little trail th

ocabulary. It must be lived. On a pure, clear day one looks down this sixty-one hundred feet, more than a mile, into the orange belt of Southern California. It spreads out be

fic Ocean, on westward the faint outlines of Catalina Islands. The ocean seems so close one could throw a p

granite mountains rise higher to the northward, and to the east rises

the workshops o

he summit and looked down into the swimming distances. I did not know why I had struggled up into that

down upon clouds. I thought of the cloud that had covered me in the

gone." But I saw the truth-the sun was shining. The sky was in place. A cloud had covered down over that first mile. The sun was shining upon me, the sky was

tormswept soul. I am under the clouds o

up the mounta

sun shining above them. No matter how black and sunless today, when I have struggled on up the mountai

I look back I see more clearly the plan of a human life. The rocks, the curves and the struggles fit into a divine engineering plan to soften the steepness of the ascent.

st that bump. The years have passed and I now know it was one of the greatest blessings of

st and I could see the sun going down. I could see him sink lower and lower until his red lips kissed the cheek of the Pacific. The glory

re saying, "The sun doesn't shine." But it was not night where I stood. I was farther up the mountain. I turned and looked up to the summ

n so

ans, go

the storm? Go on upward. Are y

always above the storm and the

go together. Mount Lowe showed the way that da

spread over all this valley of materi

ht, as I am learning to climb and look down upon the storms. I sha

the Mountain of Infinite Unfolding. I shall have risen perhaps

mber on up. "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into th

old. We are going

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ss is that of getting our happiness now i

at big boost for everybody who will read it. People ought

"The Big Business of Life is a real joy to read. It is big and ought to be read t

too seriously, and that to them it is a joyless, cheerless thing? To be able to find happiness, and to find it when we are bending to our duties is to possess the secret of living to the full. And happiness is to be sought within, and not among the things

at they think it is even better than "The University of

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short stories adapted from chapters

and Nuts is just as good as the Message to Garcia and will be handed around just us much. I have handed the book to business men, to young fellows, bond sal

ess are buying quantities of "It

booklet "Go On South": "It is one

hildren and I read the Mississippi River st

s to your friends. It will delight them