The New York herald., 1920-12-26

He is now associated with Henry L Doherty
of teaching the people to be thrifty He engaged the
lumber business until the panic of 1898 along and put
eFAp into t almost In beo every % ,%duy liked . writ. .oaoon,
He exceed all his schooates in the art Of putting his
thoughts the blackboard When therefore,
in 1898 he found himself Of job he took charge of the
started in portsmouth, Ohio, h home town
The habit of putting down the thoughts tina.
newspaper He wrote news well and found much Of
him 20 keep the columns filed with good readable
He did keep them full Of good, homy stuff, the
daily soon found hearty and prosperous welcome
special newspaper writer-the kind of who has
the faculty of picking the unusus human things of life
it is to tel the people about thnss in which hey ought to
take an interest for their own good
Jackson took me- wing the day and
81 suppose you know that the Bible contains the
best arguments thrift written | refer to the
parallels about the talents that we distributed and
about sowing seed on fertile ground so that che sower
would be certain of reaping good ha vest
Now these parallels were spoken 1000
years ago and they better than anything you or
can ite today. They show how clearly the Great
Master anticipated what would happen to His people
through all Of the centu les if they not careful
about investing their talents and sowing the seeds of
thrift"
l said (and was ashamed TO say it. too) that
did not recall in which chapters of the Bible the
parallels he referred to printed whereupon Mr..
Jackson reached to the bookcase in his Office and
d ew forth copy of the Bible, which he opened at
st. Matthew Chapter 25, 18th verse, and showed me
the parable Of the talents, and then he turned to ST.
Matthew; Chapter 10, lst verse, and showed me the
paIa able of sowing seed on fertile ground.
looked at him with admiration because SO few
of have enough to read and to remember the
words of wisdom ecorded in the Bible. Furthermore,
| was amazed to learn that copy Of the Bible was
kept handy in an office in great financial in
sttuton.
don't think many people believe that there are
many if any, institutions in Wall St eet where the
Bible is part of their libraries. spoke about this
to Mr.. Jackson, who told me that there many
copies of the Bible in the offices of Hen L. Doherty
& Company, 60 Wall Street and That he mas
doubt there many other financial institutions
where it is freq lenty referred to- because all long
headed and level-headed business men know that
the fundamentals of sound, honest and successful
business are found in the Bible.
Now the parable of the talents is foIOws'
For the kingdom of heaven travelling into
far country, who called his servants and delivered
them his goods
And unto gave FIVE talents. TO another
and to another one to every man M according to his sew
Then he that had received the five talents and
traded and made them otter FIVE talents
And likewise had received he also gained
Bur he thar had received one, and dissed in the
earth. and hid his lords money.
You see the man with one talent did not think it
amounted to very much so he buried itpu9 it out OF
sight where it couldn't earn any more talents-lust
as M, people hoard their money not thinking that
they it to make more money.
You can use all the money you Law by to make
more money if you trade the same as the men in the
parable did with their five talents and two talents,
respectively Every cent can be made to count and
to make another cent.
The parable Of sowing the seed is as folowsi
"And great n7ultitudes ga cred together unto
him he ship, and and the whole
multitude stood the shore.
And he sDake many things them in parallels
ing. Behold. a forth
nd W. he sowed. seeds fell by the waySide
and the fowls came and devoured them up.
Some fe upon stony places where they had NOT much
eartS and forthwith they sprung because they had
deep0eSs of earth
An when the they were Scorched; and
because they had they wfttered away.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns
up. and choked them.
But Others fell good ground and brought forth
fruit hundedfoid, sxtyfold, some thirty
fold
Sowing (investing) should be carefully done.
You should not invest where your seed will fall by
the wayside" and fowls (unprincipled peope) will
come and "devour."
You should not sow (nvesD in places where
there is not a sound background because you will
not get any return.
You should avoid the "thorrs" which are Wild
cat investments but you should sow (nvestl in good
securities which will inc forth results some an
hund edfold, some sixtyfold, thirtyfold"
Don't you think that you should heed to the words
of wisdom quoted above?