CHAPTER XXXIV.

DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY DIFFICULTIES.

WE must not expect always to go smoothly
* forward in life, without opposition, reproach,
or suffering; if we do, we shall be almost
sure to meet with disappointment, and to be
depressed by discouragement. Wherever
there is anything worth possessing, there we
shall find many persons striving for it, and
in the competition we shall of course meet
with difficulties. This truth is beautifully
told in the following little poem written by
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