As A Man Thinketh

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Here is a man who is wretchedly poor. He is extremely anxious that

his surroundings and home comforts should be improved yet all the

time he shirks his work, and considers he is justified in trying to

deceive his employer on the ground of the insufficiency of his wages.

Such a man does not understand the simplest rudiments of those

principles which are the basis of true prosperity, and is not only

totally unfitted to rise out of his wretchedness, but is atually

attracting to himself a still deeper wretchedness by dwelling in, and

ating out, indolent, deceptive, and unmanly thoughts.

 

Here is a rich man who is the victim of a painful and persistent

disease as the result of gluttony. He is willing to give large sums

of money to et rid of it, but he will not sacrifice his gluttonous

desires. He wants to gratify this taste for rich and unnatural viands

and have his health as well. Such a man is totally unfit to have

health because he has not yet learned the first principles of a

healthy life.

 

Here is an employer of labour who adopts crooked measures to avoid

paying the regulation wage; and, in the hope of making larger profits

reduces the wages of his work-people. Such a man is altogether

unfitted for prosperity, and when he finds himself bankrupt, both as

regards reputation and riches, he blames circumstances, not knowing

that he is the sole author of his condition.

 

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