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Climb On!
Climb On!
October 16, 2009
By: Joshua Olmsted
"Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets." ~American Proverb
Climb On!
"He died climbing" is the simple inscription on a monument to an Alpine guide, who perished when attempting the ascent of a peak. That record is a noble tribute to a hero. His attitude should be ours— looking upward and pressing forward. He was pressing on in the pathway of duty. Many a splendid career, intercepted at the critical juncture, might be described by the same concise record.
"He died climbing" may be said of many a young and ardent enthusiast—of Mackay, soon cut off in Uganda; of Bishop Hannington, reaching the border of the same land and martyred there; of Patterson, soon slain in Melanesia by islanders who mistook him for a slave-catching captain. Of Henry Martyn, who did not live to see any of the results of his mission; of Wycliffe, who sent forth the Bible in England but was not permitted to see the beginning of the Reformation—all these "died climbing."
Climb on! Climb ever! Ne'er despond,
Though from each summit gained
There stretch forth ever heights beyond—
Ideals to be attained!
—James T. White
(from Practical Bible Illustrations from Yesterday and Today Copyright © 1996, 1998 by AMG International, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by Permission.)
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14, KJV)
October 16, 2009
By: Joshua Olmsted
"Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets." ~American Proverb
Climb On!
"He died climbing" is the simple inscription on a monument to an Alpine guide, who perished when attempting the ascent of a peak. That record is a noble tribute to a hero. His attitude should be ours— looking upward and pressing forward. He was pressing on in the pathway of duty. Many a splendid career, intercepted at the critical juncture, might be described by the same concise record.
"He died climbing" may be said of many a young and ardent enthusiast—of Mackay, soon cut off in Uganda; of Bishop Hannington, reaching the border of the same land and martyred there; of Patterson, soon slain in Melanesia by islanders who mistook him for a slave-catching captain. Of Henry Martyn, who did not live to see any of the results of his mission; of Wycliffe, who sent forth the Bible in England but was not permitted to see the beginning of the Reformation—all these "died climbing."
Climb on! Climb ever! Ne'er despond,
Though from each summit gained
There stretch forth ever heights beyond—
Ideals to be attained!
—James T. White
(from Practical Bible Illustrations from Yesterday and Today Copyright © 1996, 1998 by AMG International, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by Permission.)
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14, KJV)
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