By Jack V. Joyce
By what standards do we judge a man’s success? Is a man a success because he has accumulated a vast amount of material wealth? These are questions which I have been thinking about this week.
So many of us I believe judge a man’s success in this world by his earthly wealth. If we do not judge a man’s success by this standard then how are we to judge his success. Is getting our names in the newspaper in glaring headlines as doing something great, is that being a success? If so then successes are few and far between. I believe a man’s success depends entirely upon the motives he has in mind when he does something. Do you do things just for the mere recognition of the fact that you have done something, or because it was your duty to have done so? If so, your actions are not a sign of success, but do things because you love to do them and because you love the object of your action, then you are really much more on your way to success than otherwise.
To be a success a man does not merely have to have man’s recognition, but he surely must have God’s recognition for his life. If you have gone through this life and when you die this work is the same as when you came into it, what has your life counted for anyway? Is anybody in this life benefited by the fact that you have lived? I f not then what good has our life been? That is the standard by which I believe success is this life should be judged, whether or not a man’s life has counted for anything int his world for the betterment of it or any occupant of it.
From the front page of the News-Record, Marshall, N.C., Friday, November 5, 1926. The Only Newspaper Published in Madison County
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