Obstacles The impediments that can arise to baffle a great and swelling career are strange and various.

In some instances all the cross-waves of life must be cut by the strong swimmer.

With other personalities there is a chance, or force, that happily allies itself with them; or they quite unconsciously ally themselves with it, and find that there is a tide that bears them on.

Divine will?
Not necessarily.

There is no understanding of it.