CHAPTEE II 



THE DISCOURAGEMENTS AND VICISSITUDES OF THE 

 BUSINESS OF FARMING 



EVERY human being is susceptible to the 

 influences of discouragement. Many pos- 

 sess the happy faculty of presenting to the world 

 a front that shows no evidence of its blighting 

 effects, and surely thrice happy is he who can 

 meet the discouragements of life with that human 

 courage we call grand and sublime. 



We who are susceptible to the influences of dis- 

 couragement, would gain much courage and help 

 if we would but remember that even the Christ, 

 when on earth, came under the crushing power of 

 discouragement, for, when he learned that one of 

 his disciples had bargained to betray him for 

 thirty pieces of silver, and that another had pur- 

 posed in his heart to deny him, he came to Geth- 

 semane with a heart and body broken and bowed 

 down with exceeding sorrow and discouragement, 

 fell upon his face, and prayed for the passing of 

 the cup. Yet, in that hour of quiet prayer withhi 

 the stillness of Gethsemane, he gained the cour- 

 age that bore him through the greater trial of 

 the Cross, Calvary and death. 



There is not a business but has its periods of 

 discouragements, its drawbacks, its vicissitudes. 

 Panics come, sweep away the fortunes of business 



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