The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29

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away. Yet how many are watching
and waiting for some grand oppor-
tunity to present itself when they
shall, all at once, win a great fortune.
They allow the little opportunities to
secure riches to pass unimproved in
their desire to become suddenly rich.
And by and by life has passed to
them and they die poor, having &C.
complished nothing for themselves
or the world at large. This desire to
become suddenly rich has been the
ruin of many a man. 1t tends to
wild speculation, to gambling, to the
getting up of corners on grain, and
while one makes, the many lose.
God works 'little by little" and the
world around us attests his wisdom.
3. Another way to make money is
that adopted by the miser,- getting
every dollar possible and clinging to
it with an iron grasp, as though ones
life depended upon holding fast to
money. 1t does not require much of
a conscience. In fact, the less the
conscience and the less the milk of
human kindness, the better The
great essentials necessary are, first,
an acute intellect and sharpness in
trade; second, nndeveloped moral
powers; third, holding fast to all
you get, no matter how you get it;
and fourth, perseverance in this di-
rection unto the end of life. The
spirit of humanity and brotherly
kindness must be ignored, the voice
of conscience stifed; no time given
to recreation nor the cultivation of
the nobler powers of the soul; but
money getting must be the one all
absorbing interest of life, first, last,
and always. When you trade, al
ways aim to get the best of the bar
gain. When you sell goods, always
be sure to take more than they are
worth. In making change, always
take the odd cent In measuring out
goods always let there be little
shortage. Take advantage of a poor
mans necessities to charge large
interest on the money you loan him,
and foreclose the mortgage on his
farm or home the moment the time
expires if he has not paid the last
cent, even though you have to turn
his family into the streets. Never
give dollar to any benevolent or
charitable purpose, and never en-
courage the spread of the Gospel,
for that might interfere with your
modes of making money. Starve
your own better nature and never
think of God, the Giver of all good.
This done, and at the end of your
life you will probably have laid up
few rusty dollars for others to quar-
rel over when you are gone; and into
the unseen world you will carry, as
your own inheritance, a small, Mig
gardly, dried-up soul,-very small
riches, indeed, and exceedingly poor
at that,-upon which to build char
acter for eternity. But who wants to
spend his life in this way, for the
sake of making little money which
he can call his own but for short
time? Such life affords no enjoy
ment. There is no good in it, and
money secured in this way is not
blessing but curse. Such a man
may call himself rich, but he is poor
er than the poorest man of honor
who ever lived. If he has secured
his money by fraud or by grinding
the faces of the poor, it is not his
own, and he can get no benefit from
it. Every dollar that he has secured
wrongfully will burn itself down
deep into his soul, and will torture
and torment him until he gets rid of
the spirit of avarice and makes amends
for past offences. Young man, don't
cultivate this stingy, misery, mean
spirit for the sake of securing few
dollars that you may call your own
but little while at the longest.
Better be poor in this worlds goods
and rich in soul than rich in this
worlds goods and poor in soul.
4. But there is way to make
money which is perfectly legitimate
and honorable. 1t is by the same
process by which nature grows rich
by slow, steady, constant accumula-
tons. The rich, deep soil of our
meadows and prairies has been ages
upon ages accommodating.
Our extensive and valuable pine,
oak and maple forests have not grown
in day, nor year, but they have
consumed centuries in reaching their
wealth and greatness. Our beds of
coal were thousands upon thousands
of ages in forming. And so with all