What did you do last year--what use did you make of the time as
it went by? What did you do yesterday? What are you going to do
to-day? You possess a mind organized for practically unlimited
thinking and studying. How many of your hours do you live as a
thinking, studying man? How many do you live on a par with an ox
chewing his cud in the field?

The ox does not waste HIS time. It is his business to grow fat
and produce beef. He uses every hour. It is your business to
use your time in the development of your mind, in dealing with
the duties and problems that are put before you.

Every young man can make a success if he will really look upon
each hour as an OPPORTUNITY, and cease to look upon the hours as
useless things, to be thrown away.

One hour will give you a knowledge of some good book, or wisely
spent, with a purpose of improving your health, it will make your
brain more efficient and add to the value of all future hours.

If you have a horse, a bicycle, a gun, you feel that because you
HAVE it you ought to USE it.

How much more should you feel that you ought to use your TIME, in
using which you use your own brain! Surely, your brain is more
important and more worthy of conscientious use than a bicycle or
a gun.

Talk to children on this question of time. Teach them that