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Section XX. Of Self-Reliance and Fortitude.

201. Q. are all successful?

A. As there are many chances and occurrences—as ill health, losses, accidents,—we cannot foresee or prevent, it must follow there are many who cannot he successful in life.

202. Q. How then should we regard such misfortunes?

A. We should bear them with a brave heart, with fortitude and resignation, and make the best of what we cannot prevent or avoid.

203. Q. What further should we remember?

A. If success does not always attend us we should remember that trouble of some kind is the lot of man, and that there is no position in life entirely free from care and anxiety.

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204. Q. What further should we see to cultivate?

A. We should endeavour to cultivate habit of self-reliance.

205. Q. For what reasons?

A. Because it is our duty to learn [unclear: a] depend on ourselves, rather than on others and because it is a manly and noble impuls seek to be indepondent, and to go throng life without resting on others.

206. Q. What will most assist us [unclear: in] cultivating a self-reliant spirit?

A. Learning to depend on our own [unclear: no] sources, and carrying out the simple [unclear: ru] never to ask others to do for us what [unclear: was] are able to do for ourselves.

207. Q. How may our duty be finally summed up?

A. We should honestly carry out the duties belonging to our lot in life; be just and considerate to others in word and deed and so control our own tastes and inclination as to leave an example worthy of imitation.

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