Inconsistent hyphenation (touch-stone/touch stone) has been left as printed in the original. A few obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The sentence printed in the original as

Happy are they who can pass through h a firm mind and a pure heart, encountering trials with cheerfulness and standing erect beneath even the heaviest burdens.

has been reconstructed as

Happy are they who can pass through misfortune with a firm mind and a pure heart, encountering trials with cheerfulness and standing erect beneath even the heaviest burdens.