What I would do if I have a Million Dollars
By Blue Rose on Friday, 10 of July , 2009 at 10:24 am
This story proves the truth of the old saying, “where there’s a will, there’s a way”. It was told by the beloved educator and clergyman, the late Frank W. Gunsaulus, who began his preaching career in the stockyards region of South Chicago.
While Dr. Gunsaulus was going through college, he observe many defects in our educational system, defects which he believed that he could correct, if he were the head of a college. His deepest desire is to become the directing head of an educational institution in which young man and women would be taught to “learn by doing”.
He made up his mind to organize a new college in which he could carry out his ideas, without being handicapped by orthodox methods of education.
He needed a million dollars to put the project across. Where was he to lay his hands on so large a sum of money? That was the question that absorbed most of this ambitious young preacher’s thought.
But he couldn’t seem to make any progress. Every night he took that thought to bed with him. He got up with it every morning. He took it with him every where he went. He turned it over and over in his mind until it became a consuming obsession with him. A million dollars is a lot of money. He recognized that fact, but he also recognized the truth that the only limitation is that which one sets up in one’s own mind.
Being a philosopher as well as a preacher, Dr. Gunsaulus recognized, as do all who succeed in life, that definiteness of purpose is the starting point fro which one must begin. He recognized, too, that definiteness of purpose takes an animation, life, and power when backed by a burning desire to translate that purpose into its material equivalent.
He knew all these great truths, yet he did not know where, or how to lay his hands on a million dollars. The natural procedure would have been to give up and quit, by saying, “Ah, well, my idea is a good one, but I cannot do anything with it, because I never can procure the necessary million dollars.” That is exactly what the majority of people would have said, but it is not what Dr. Gunsaulus said. What he said, and what he did is so important that I now introduce him, and let him speak for himself.
”One Saturday afternoon I sat in my room thinking of ways and means of raising the money to carry out my plans. For nearly two years, I had been thinking, but I had done nothing but think!
“The time had come for action!
What do you think Dr. Gunsaulus will do to raise the million dollars?
See you all on the next chapter.
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