When I was attending Eastern Pentecostal Bible College in Peterborough, Ontario, every Friday we had a special speaker at our Chapel service. One Friday, our speaker was a pastor of a church in Pembroke, Ontario, who had previously been president of this college when I was in my first year. The title of his message that day was “When Is a Man or Woman a Failure?” He kept repeating this until the end of his thirty minute sermon. Finally, he gave the answer – “When they quit trying”.

At that time, my wife had been quite sick with our second child. Her father and mother drove from London to Peterborough, a 200 mile trip, to pick up her and our son to take them back to London so her mother could look after her. They made a bed in the back seat of the car (no seatbelts in those days) and drove the 200 miles back to London.

I was working at the A&P grocery chain 21 hours per week as well as attending classes. They stopped by the store to let me say good-bye. She was so sick I wondered if I would see her alive again. They wouldn’t let me take time off school, so I never wrote, or failed all my second year second semester exams.

In my third year, I returned early and rewrote all my second year second semester exams, completed my third year and graduated with the Witness Class in April 1959 at Massey Hall, Toronto. Within one month we were in the Maritimes pastoring a church.

I thank the Lord for the inspiring message the speaker had that day in Chapel. My word to all is NEVER QUIT TRYING. Our oldest son always had a saying “THE BEST IS YET TO COME”.

May God Bless You!

Leslie Jobb