Worry is one of the symptoms of a weak backbone. Everybody should know that small stumbles are not killing matters to mourn over or worry about. You may have had in your own experience, many cases where your worries and anxieties proved nothing but phantoms. You think you will not survive until tomorrow, but you always see the sun shining the next day whatever befalls you today. Things always come out as a rule much better than you expect, or dared hope. If you have health and good friends to encourage you, why should you worry or fret over the things of life which are always small and insignificant? Keep your eyes open and watch for another opportunity to wedge yourself back in, if you should happen to be crowded out of anything. You must not think that every avenue to opportunity is sealed up against you because you do not find a wide open way to get in. Try a small way first, and keep on pushing and the road will widen. That is you must not weaken, if you do you will slide back and so be always climbing up and sliding down the hill. Keep in the Race, Don’t Give Up The Holy Bible tells you, and man’s experience has always demonstrated it, that “The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.” You are fearful that you will not win. Why? Is it not because you are looking backward instead of forward? You have had much to contend with, let us say; very well, are you going to lie down now that you can see daylight ahead? We are living in the present, acquiring strength for the future, the past is dead and should be buried. The man who looks back is useless for present needs. Get away from the downtrodden notion, the servant idea, and be a man with an intelligent brain aspiring to higher things. Every man is what he thinks himself to be, and if you have no aspirations beyond your present occupation, then you will remain in that occupation and nobody can pull you out of it. On the contrary, a man who thinks he is fitted for some better occupation than the one he is engaged in, will soon find that other occupation; he will soon be his own master. No man is kept out of a thing unless he wants to stay out. It is true there are sometimes many difficulties, and in the case of our Colored Americans, they have been appalling and discouraging. But the light is breaking, the black clouds are disappearing, and soon, if you keep in the race, you will find the land of sunshine and happiness. Don’t give up the ship as long as there is a timber to float on. Keep an Eye on the Future It is quite true that we are living in the present but we do not stop with today or stand still. You know that the sun will rise tomorrow and that you will see it rise. That is, in all probability. The sun of tomorrow and your rising are future events.