Such men may attract a great deal of passing attention, while the tireless plodders working beside them receive no praise, no commendation; but in the real records of life, written in abiding lines in God's Book, it is the latter who will shine in the brightest splendor.

Robert Browning puts this truth in striking way in one of his poems:-- "Now, observe, Sustaining is no brilliant self-display Like knocking down or even setting up: Much bustle these necessitate; and still To vulgar eye, the mightier of the myth Is Hercules, who substitutes his own For Atlas' shoulder and supports the globe A whole day,--not the passive and obscure Atlas who bore, ere Hercules was born, And is to go on bearing that same load When Hercules turns ash on Oeta's top.
'Tis the transition-stage, the tug and strain, That strike men: standing still is stupid-like." So we get our lesson.

There is so much to do in the short days that we dare not lose a moment.

Life is so laden with responsibility that to trifle at any point is sin.

Even on the seizing of minutes eternal issues may depend.