Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck;
See yon tall shaft; it felt the earthquake’s thrill,
Clung to its base, and greets the sunrise still.
—O. W. Holmes.
(3060)
STEPS UPWARD
When one is climbing a mountain whose lofty peak he has long admired from a distance there is an arduous ascent and one with many steps to be made; but how good and wholesome is the way. The path which winds through grassy meadows, the bridge which crosses the rushing stream pouring down from the heights, the slow and toilful ascent, repaid by the purer air and the rarer flowers and the wider vision, over obstacles, and then, at last, the height itself, different from the rest only in this, that it is the culmination! There can be no Parnassus without the steps that lead to it.—George Clark Coe.
(3061)
Stewardship—See [Claim, God’s].
STICKING TO IT