IT MAY BE RESISTED,

it has been resisted. If the family frailty be avarice, cultivate

unselfishness and charity, and teach your children never to eat an

apple without offering somebody else half of it. Is the family frailty

combativeness, keep out of the company of quick-tempered people, and

never answer an impertinent question until you have counted a hundred

both ways, and after you have written an angry letter keep it a week

before you send it, and then burn it up! Is the family frailty

timidity and cowardice, cultivate backbone, read the biography of

brave men like Joshua or Paul, and see if you cannot get a little iron

in your blood. Find out what the family frailty is, and set body, mind

and soul in battle array.

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