Excerpt from Curler's Sermons: Preached Before the Grand National Curling Club Let me remind you then, in the first place, that Life is a contest. We are born into a world of combatant interests. Good and evil are striving for the mastery, and sooner or later we range ourselves with one party or the other. Even growth is a struggle of our vitality against noxious influences and unwholesome conditions. Business is a com petition; livelihood is a stern fight to dig our food out of a hard soil, or to wrest it from the hands of men loth to give up a part of their surplusage. Public position has to be achieved by strength of character, ability and work. There is plenty of room at the top, but how few succeed in getting to the top; and the lower walks are crowded with an eager, jostling multitude, and it seems, sometimes, as though life were the mad desire of every one to get upon the shoulders of some one else. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.