Editorial June 6, 1903 Issue

"Occupy till I Come"

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PREPARATION means opportunity. Not one minute need be wasted in waiting. The truth is always soliciting servitors, and he who is idle must lack either desire for work or qualification for it. "Aspiration is not inspiration," some one has said, and certain it is, aspiration is not fitness.

From the aspiring mother of Zebedee's sons down to the earnest, enthusiastic claimant for woman's suffrage, the element of qualification has been too often neglected.

The first step toward achievement is not to lay claim to position or to recognition, but to prepare conscientiously for possible demands.

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