LETTERS FROM FLORIDA


these duties as they rise, and, confident in their


Father's


wisdom,


endeavor


to perform


them


faith-


fully, they will soon learn how full of choicest bless-


wings,


waiting to be garnered all along the unknown,


untried way, is a life of diligent courageous effort.


young are often


perplexed


with


unforeseen


obstacles and


discouragements at the


very threshold


of their new and independent life.


Their perplexities


frequently spring from the attempt to


build


up their


own future on the old foundations which their fathers


laid.
adapte
work:


These were doubtless wisely planned,


d


to the


and well


period when their ancestors began the


and, under the then existing circumstances, no


doubt the best that could have been devised*


But, as


years


on, many


changes


incident


a rapidly


growing population


unfolded better ways, and gradu-


ally made the old ways distasteful and irksome.


This


becoming


more and


more evident, and


growing


discontent and loss of


faith in the old-time methods


becoming


burdensome,


it would


be wise for young


people to relinquish the idea of settling close by large
towns and cities, unless their bank accounts are heavy


and their prospects of


success are past a doubt.


It is


ruinous to remain in familiar localities, hampered by
the old methods, endeavoring to force their way, till


they possess


is wasted in


useless


struggle to


find a firm and permanent foothold.


young


folks,


therefore,


have


little


but their own strong


hands and well-cultured brains


to depend
can keep


on, leave the old


places that only rich men


productive condition, and


go forth