256 The Labor Question 



from every difficulty, but by triumphing over each 

 as it arose and making out of it a stepping-stone to 

 further triumph. 



We must all learn the two lessons the lesson of 

 self-help and the lesson of giving help to and receiv 

 ing help from our brother. There is not a man of us 

 who does not sometimes slip, who does not some 

 times need a helping hand; and woe to him who, 

 when the chance comes, fails to stretch out that help 

 ing hand. Yet, though each man can and ought thus 

 to be helped at times, he is lost beyond redemption 

 if he becomes so dependent upon outside help that he 

 feels that his own exertions are secondary. Any 

 man at times will stumble, and it is then our duty 

 to lift him up and set him on his feet again; but 

 no man can be permanently carried, for if he ex 

 pects to be carried he shows that he is not worth 

 carrying. 



Before us loom industrial problems vast in their 

 importance and their complexity. The last half- 

 century has been one of extraordinary social and in 

 dustrial development. The changes have been far- 

 reaching ; some of them for good, and some of them 

 for evil. It is not given to the wisest of us to see 

 into the future with absolute clearness. No man can 

 be certain that he has found the entire solution of 

 this infinitely great and intricate problem, and yet 

 each man of us, if he would do his duty, must strive 



