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and I believe it is never ‘ just as well.’ If we do it
once, we may do it twice; and who can tell how many
times afterwards? Robert is now commencing busi-
ness. He will find, in the business world, a great
many difficult and disagreeable circumstances. Now
the true way to get rid of them is not to turn about
~ and run away, but to face them; to fight through them;
to meet them with a true manly heart. What you have
got to do, do; and do it without shrinking or com-
plaining. That is the only true way, Charley—the
only true way, Robert. Remember it, boys. It is so
in the business world. It is just so in the Christian
life. The Christian life is called a fight, a warfare, a
race. Does the brave soldier shrink, and turn back,
and flee, when difficulties are to be encountered or
dangers are to be met? Does Ze fight the good fight
of faith who shuns trials, and seeks his own ease and
pleasure, rather than do and suffer the will of God
with meekness and patience? And in the common
business of life do we find that man. successful and

prosperous who cries out at the sight of obstacles and

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