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FAITH WITH
WORKS -- WHAT IT HAS
ACCOMPLISHED
IT is said of Tyson, the great Australian Millionaire,
that the suggestion to “make the desert
land of Australia blossom as the rose” came to him from a modest little Australian
violet while he was working as a bushman
for something like three shillings a day.
He used to find these friendly little violets
growing in certain places in the woods,
and something in the flower touched something
akin to itself in the mind of Tyson. He
would sit on the side of his bunk at night
and wonder how flowers and vegetable life
could be given an opportunity to express
themselves in the desert land of Australia.
No doubt he realized that it would take
a long time to save enough money to put
irrigating ditches in the desert lands,
but his thought and feeling assured him
it could be accomplished, and if it could
be done, he could do it. If there was a
power within himself which was able to capture
the idea, then there must be a responsive
power within the idea itself which could
bring itself into a practical physical manifestation.
He resolutely put aside all questions as
to the specific
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