“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”
--Eccles. 9:10

I have been thinking of the many things that are lost in transit, and wondering if, in the mental world, there is not some correspondence for it all. Of recent years there has been a great deal of mail and expressage failing to reach its destination. It was not difficult for us to understand this during the Great War, when we considered the heavy inroads made in the mail and express service by the drafts of men for military service; nor were we surprised when we learned that whole shiploads of grain and other supplies intended for the Allies failed to reach those to whom they were dispatched.

These illustrations give us an idea of what is taking place with most of the people in the world. There are a thousand good starters for one good finisher, and perhaps this accounts for the fact that there is just about one success for every thousand failures. We have so many irons in the fire that we become confused. “Jacks-of-all-trades,”