Law Of Attraction

A street car conductor got a leave of absence while he tried out a position in a great mercantile business.

If I do not succeed in holding my new position, he remarked to a friend, I can always come back to the old job. At the end of tile month he was back, completely cured of all ambition to do anything except work on a street car.

Had he resigned instead of asking for a leave of absence he might have made good in the new job. The Thirteen Club movement, which is now spreading over the entire country, was born as the result of a shocking disappointment experienced by its founder. That shock was sufficient to open the mind to a broader and more comprehensive view of the needs of the age, and this discovery led to the creation of one of the most outstanding influences of this generation.

The Fifteen Laws of Success, upon which this course is based, grew out of twenty years of hardship and poverty and failure such as rarely come to one person in an entire lifetime.

Surely those of you who have followed this series of lessons from the beginning must have read between the lines and back of them a story of struggle which has meant self-discipline and self-discovery such as Study the roadway of life, in the picture at tile beginning of this essay, and observe that everyone who travels that road carries a cross.

Remember, as you take inventory of your own burdens, that Natures richest gifts go to those who meet FAILURE without flinching or whining. Natures ways are not easily understood.

If they were, no one could be tested for great responsibility, with FAILURE!

When Nature wants to make a man, And shake a man, And wake a man; When Nature wants to make a man To do the Futures wilL When she tries with all her skill And she yearns with all her soul To create him large and whole... With what cunning she prepares him!

How she goads and never spares him!