"Say Fellows—" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues by Wade C. Smith
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the shot which carries the big news to-day,--there is a rule by which
you can certainly win. Can you say that about any other game? In other games, your rival can apply the rule as well as you, but in the game of life the rule is only available for you, and it is an absolutely sure winner. Turn to your Bibles and look at it, in the twenty-fourth verse of the ninth chapter of Luke: "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." Losing your life for Jesus--which simply means _investing_ it for Him. Whatever you do, do that thing in His name and in a way worthy of Him. Your _life_, you know, is simply made up of the events of the twenty-four hours of each day. Invest each event with Jesus. That means your play as well as work. It means clean play and good hard playing to win, but in the way Christ would approve, honest, fair, chivalrous--and it is true sport, I tell you. That is a part of what it means, wearing Jesus' yoke, simply doing the thing as Jesus would do it. _Read Matthew 11:28-30._ XXX FRAUD Say, fellows, the greatest circus man who ever lived said the American |
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