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Show VALUABLE LESSONS. Failure has a teaching in it whieh nothing else can give. No man is like ly to do a thing in the best way until he has failed once or twice, and so learned what weakness or fault is to be avoided. Famous engine builders in this country were asked if they had ever had an explosion of one of their engines. They replied: "No. we have not. We wish we could if no one were hurt, for we should like to know where the weakest part is?." In great chain factories power machines are speciality speciali-ty designed to make chains fail, so that the makers may know how and w hy and w here the chains' Weakest portions the. It is sometimes a distinct advantage to have learned by a. failure. He that Is wis,? will have, somewhere in: his heart a gratitude to God for the limes when he was given the ad-, vantage of his failures. He who trusts God w ill remember this and take heart in the day o' ' ' |