3-0-x -r C6716 gnner CUTge N a factory where marinefs compasses are made, the needles, before they are mag- netized, will lie in position wherever they are placed; but from the moment they have been touched by the mighty magnet, they take on a mysterious power. Before they are magnetized, they do not answer the call of the North Star, nor does the magnetic pole have any effect upon them; but the moment they have been electrified, they swing to the magnetic north, and are ever after loyal and true to their afhnity. Multitudes of people, like unmagnetized needles, are unresponsive to any stimuli until they are touched by that inner urge we call ambition. Whence comes this overmastering impulse which pushes human beings 011. etch to his individual goal? How and when does it gain entrance into our lives? If we could explain just what ambition is, we could understand the mystery of the universe. It is the same kind of urge that is in the seed, buried out of sight, which pushes it up and through the soil, prods it to the utmost to give its beauty and frag- rance to the world. It is the instinctive impulse to keep moving on and up. It exists in every normal human being and is 215 real as the instinct of self-preservzztion. Indeed, might it not be said that this incessant upward promptinguthis urge which pushes men to their goal-is an expression in man of the universal force of evolution which is flowing Godward? God is whispering into the ear of all existence of every created thing, Look upii. Everything seems to be striving to teach a higher level. Everything is in the process of evolution, and the evolution always upward. The butterfly does not become a grub, but the grub develops into a butterfly. But for the fostering of this desire to push on and upwardethis God-urgee- the progress of the universe would cease; and, with the race, so with the individual. Ambition often begins early to knock for recognition. If we do not heed its voice, if we procrastinate in answering its call, if we cultivate the habit of picking out the easier tasks and putting OE the more difhcult ones, if we offer no encouragement to its years of appeal, the inner urge gradually sloughs off in its functioning, deterioration of ideals sets in, and the growth of the soul becomes stifled in the self-inflicted discontent of ease. Man then becomes a mere scrub-plnnt without flower or fruitage, for the better things do not grow in material or mental soil without work, care, and nourishment. Only weeds, briars and noxious plants thrive easily.
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