Good luck keeps company only with industrious, thrifty and honorable people who have faith in themselves, faith in their fellow men, and faith in God. Even then, luck will disappear like smoke in a wind unless you can also demonstrate that you possess wisdom, patience and courage. What you think is good luck, may keep company with you for a short time, but will speedily desert you if you do not make good. The dictionary says “Luck” means “that which happens a person; chance; accident; good fortune; success.” In your luck you should keep away from the element of “chance” or “accident.” Let your luck depend upon your own efforts, and take things by the forelock and make them come your way. Things will happen you just as you intend they shall. There is really no such thing as bad luck, for if a thing does not happen because of your mistakes, it is not bad luck but mistake. Try as you may to reach a certain result, and failing, you say you had bad luck. You merely did not know how to succeed or went too far, or reached out for more than you could handle. That is not bad luck, it is mismanagement. You might have succeeded if you had managed properly. Chance must be kept out of the way or you will flounder about in a swamp whose quicksands will engulf you sooner or later. BE SLOW TO ANGER The Scripture says: “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.” We are also advised not to let the sun go down on our wrath. If we desire to succeed in any enterprise we must “possess our souls in patience.” In Luke XVI, 19, it is explained: “In your patience possess your souls.” We are nowhere advised not to be angry, but to possess our souls in our anger. That is: Never let anger get the better of our control. In Ephesians IV, 26, it is said: “Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” This is the key to what is known as “temper.” It is the part of a wise man to control his temper. Not to have any temper at all is to be one whom Col. Roosevelt calls “a mollycoddle,” and such a person is truly weak and without any backbone. But the anger or the temper which leads to violence is to be controlled absolutely. Those sudden gusts of passion lead to crime as sure as the sun rises and sets every day. And it is always personal violence, even to the extent of murder that is the result of giving way to such an emotion. No one ever becomes violently angry because he is not a good man. If a man stands up in his manhood, and despises small things, he will be in a position to control his angry feelings no matter how much he may feel hurt by the acts of another. If we could get angry with ourselves because we do not improve, that would be an anger worth cultivating. But so far as others are concerned, let your anger be mild and never reach the point of resentment, for that always leads to revenge which is a fatal emotion.