INTRODUCTION:
     Much trouble and worry come about because we didn’t know—didn’t think. Many know and preach, but don’t practice. The following is the results of a questionnaire from successful men.
I Wish I Had Known:
     1. What I was to make my life work.
     2. That my health after thirty years of age depended largely upon what I ate before reaching the age of twenty-one.
     3. How to take care of money.
     4. The commercial asset of going neatly and sensibly dressed.
     5. That habits are hard to change after twenty-one years.
     6. A harvest depends upon the seed sown.
     7. Things worthwhile require time, patience, and work.
     8. That I can’t get something for nothing.
     9. That the world will give me what I deserve.
    10. That by the sweat of my brow I must earn my bread.
    11. That a thorough education brings the best of everything.
    12. That honesty is the best policy for right.
    13. The value of truth in everything.
    14. The folly of not taking the advice of older people.
    15. What it really means to parents to rear their son.
    16. What hardships and disappointment leaving home against parent’s will brings.
    17. More of the Bible.
    18. The value of the opportunity of serving my fellow-man.
    19. That Jesus is with me always.
    20. That God’s relationship to me is as good as that of a shepherd to his sheep.

*Chapel Talk by H. Leo Boles at D.L.C., Spring, 1928. Taken from, A Word Fitly Spoken, by John D. Cox.