Music Trade Review
Issue: 1913 Vol. 57 N. 16 - Page 3
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VOL. LVII. N o . 16 Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Oct. 18, 1913
b SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS
$£oo PERYEAR.
HERE is always room at the top—surely there is—but the frequented road may be pretty
rough; still there is a good, strong platform for the staunch and patient who keep ever
plugging away to win the desired goal.
Of course- there are disappointments and troubles galore, and the skies are often sullen
and gray, but no man finds that it brings him any special relief to grumble and whine over the
disappointments that come his way. That policy does not lighten the burden of gloom or dissipate
the grievance which worries him. The men who are ambitious and determined have but little time
to howl about the obstacles which lie in their path. The workers are never finding fault with
obstacles. They see them and they make up their minds to vault over them, while the idlers and the
unsuccessful ones give way to morose feelings when they get a real good kick from Fate.
We should be better off—certainly we should be happier—if we could force ourselves to remem-
ber that there is a higher governing law than human, and undoubtedly we certainly would be a
great deal happier if we would remember that Nature has a system of laws to which exceptions
are seldom if ever made.
One of these laws is that which governs the sowing of the seed and the ingathering of the
harvest. That law stipulates that a man shall reap in strict accordance with the manner in which
he has sown, and it would be pretty difficult to find an instance where this rule is not carried
into effect.
The great trouble with us is we do not realize that this applies with equal force to everything
in life, that the thoughts and actions of life are synonymous with the seeds which the fanner sows,
and the subsequent conditions which we encounter form the natural harvest, and that is always
dependent upon the seed which we have sown.
If we sow winds we must expect to reap a whirlwind; if we sow tares we must expect to
reap weeds. It is only by sowing good seed in the shape of benevolent thoughts and meritorious
actions that we can have any right to anticipate or even hope for a gratifying and agreeable
harvest.
There are many persons who complain about their ill-luck, when, as a matter of fact, the evil
fortune to which they object is perhaps the natural harvest that has come from the seed w r hich
they have sown.
Many things in this world occur in obedience to law, and the difficulty in recognizing this fact
comes through our inability to trace it back to its source, or, in other words, our failure to realize
that such a law is in operation.
We prate about misfortune and our lack of opportunity as though everything were a matter
of chance. But this is not so.
It is true that a man often errs, and some of the best men make costly mistakes.
It was the great Spinoza who wrote: "We shall never err if we give our consent to noth-
ing except what we clearly perceive."
Now while some men are waiting to clearly perceive every possible point in a business prob-
lem there are other men will see the major points quickly and take their chances on the minor ones.
They may err, but nine times out of ten they will advance while the other men are shrouded
in doubt and indefiniteness, and still we wonder why some succeed!
There is no luck about it. It means the exercising of good,
straight pluck, backed in most cases by good, ordinary, every-day
horse sense.
T
Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com
-- digitized with support from namm.org
PUBLIC liBRAiu
RLMFW
THE
VOL. LVII. N o . 16 Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Oct. 18, 1913
b SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS
$£oo PERYEAR.
HERE is always room at the top—surely there is—but the frequented road may be pretty
rough; still there is a good, strong platform for the staunch and patient who keep ever
plugging away to win the desired goal.
Of course- there are disappointments and troubles galore, and the skies are often sullen
and gray, but no man finds that it brings him any special relief to grumble and whine over the
disappointments that come his way. That policy does not lighten the burden of gloom or dissipate
the grievance which worries him. The men who are ambitious and determined have but little time
to howl about the obstacles which lie in their path. The workers are never finding fault with
obstacles. They see them and they make up their minds to vault over them, while the idlers and the
unsuccessful ones give way to morose feelings when they get a real good kick from Fate.
We should be better off—certainly we should be happier—if we could force ourselves to remem-
ber that there is a higher governing law than human, and undoubtedly we certainly would be a
great deal happier if we would remember that Nature has a system of laws to which exceptions
are seldom if ever made.
One of these laws is that which governs the sowing of the seed and the ingathering of the
harvest. That law stipulates that a man shall reap in strict accordance with the manner in which
he has sown, and it would be pretty difficult to find an instance where this rule is not carried
into effect.
The great trouble with us is we do not realize that this applies with equal force to everything
in life, that the thoughts and actions of life are synonymous with the seeds which the fanner sows,
and the subsequent conditions which we encounter form the natural harvest, and that is always
dependent upon the seed which we have sown.
If we sow winds we must expect to reap a whirlwind; if we sow tares we must expect to
reap weeds. It is only by sowing good seed in the shape of benevolent thoughts and meritorious
actions that we can have any right to anticipate or even hope for a gratifying and agreeable
harvest.
There are many persons who complain about their ill-luck, when, as a matter of fact, the evil
fortune to which they object is perhaps the natural harvest that has come from the seed w r hich
they have sown.
Many things in this world occur in obedience to law, and the difficulty in recognizing this fact
comes through our inability to trace it back to its source, or, in other words, our failure to realize
that such a law is in operation.
We prate about misfortune and our lack of opportunity as though everything were a matter
of chance. But this is not so.
It is true that a man often errs, and some of the best men make costly mistakes.
It was the great Spinoza who wrote: "We shall never err if we give our consent to noth-
ing except what we clearly perceive."
Now while some men are waiting to clearly perceive every possible point in a business prob-
lem there are other men will see the major points quickly and take their chances on the minor ones.
They may err, but nine times out of ten they will advance while the other men are shrouded
in doubt and indefiniteness, and still we wonder why some succeed!
There is no luck about it. It means the exercising of good,
straight pluck, backed in most cases by good, ordinary, every-day
horse sense.
T
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