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Show L,oave the Hesulc I have learned, I hope, the useless-ness useless-ness of forecasting. I don't mean that one should be heedless and careless about the future far from that; hut merely that, having done whatever seems for the best today, we should simply and reverently leave the result in God's hands. I often long to give a simple recipe to anxious people; let them write overnight what they expect ex-pect to happen to them the next day, going as much into detail as they can; and then the next evening let them write out what really did happen. I do not mean that it will necessarily be either better or worse than their anticipations, but only that it will be so utterly different, nine times out o! ten, as to prove the futility of fore- casting Marearet Vandegrift. |