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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...by what most persons would call petty savings of materials, or of time. I would by no means have you penurious, neither is it needful to gnaw morality to the bone as some are doing in order to get rich. The great reason why you and I should be saving is not merely that by so doing we shall increase our store of wealth, and so increase our comforts and happiness, and add to the welfare of the world, but our habits are made, like savings, by little acts, and these habits form characters, and character is the only possession which we take with us to the next world. It is a dreadful thing to bid farewell to this life either as a miser or a spendthrift. Happy is he who gets all the money he honestly, honorably, can, spends it liberally for his own and others' welfare while he lives, and leaves it without regret when his stewardship of it is at an end. Such a man can walk the streets of the New Jerusalem without having to shudder at the thought of a former deep debasement to that city's paving materials. Use and Abuse of Money. Rev. WASHINGTON GLADDEN. D.D. WHAT shall we do with our money--with what we inherit, with what is given to us, with what we earn? How shall we use it? What principles shall guide us in keeping it, or in parting with it? I have put these questions to several wise men and women of my acquaintance, and I have received various replies. Spend less than your income, answers one sententiously, even if your income be very small. This may be said to be the first principle of personal economy. No man's life can have any comfort or peace in it until he has learned to build on this good foundation. He who lives by this rule may know what self-respect is, and what is independence, and what is manliness; he who...

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