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is by fastening our eyes on the difficulties and shrinking from earnest
battle for the right, that we become weak and faithless.
By taking one step after another, the highest ascent may be climbed,
and the summit of the mount may be reached at last. Do not become
overwhelmed with the great amount of work you must do in your
lifetime, for you are not required to do it all at once. Let every power of
your being go to each day’s work, improve each precious opportunity,
appreciate the helps that God gives you, and make advancement up the
ladder of progress step by step. Remember that you are to live but one
day at a time, that God has given you one day, and heavenly records
will show how you have valued its privileges and opportunities. May
you so improve every day given you of God, that at last you may hear
the Master say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”—
The
Youth’s Instructor, January 5, 1893
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