Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Persevere!

Keep on keeping on!

Patiently strive!

A very small river will carry a lot of water to the sea if it keeps running.

• In his old age, after writing many books, grammars, and versions of the Holy Scripture, Carey said, I can do one thing—I can plod.

• Cicero practiced speaking before friends every day for thirty years to perfect his speech.

• Noah Webster labored thirty-six years writing his dictionary, crossing the Atlantic twice to gather material.

• Gibbon spent twenty-six years on his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

• Bryant rewrote one of his poetic masterpieces ninety-nine times before publication.

• Adam Clark spent forty years writing his commentary.

• In the British Museum there are seventy-five drafts of Thomas Gray’s Eulogy Written in a Country Churchyard.

• Michaelangelo’s Last Judgment was the product of eight years’ unremitting toil.

• Leonardo DaVinci worked on The Last Supper for ten years.

Some of us give up too quickly on ourselves. Progress seems so slow or nonexistent. Water dripping or trickling over a rock will one day cut out a groove (Job 14.19). A small amount of money systematically saved at a moderate rate of interest will one day become an astronomical figure.

Plod! Persevere!

Persistence is essential to success.

Never give up! Success will come!

—CHARLES CASH

Siloam Springs AR