A Cyclopedia of Twentieth Century Illustrations: New Piecture of Truth from Current Events and Recent Inventions and Discoveries, for the Use of Preachers, Sunday-School Teachers and Christian Workers
A Cyclopedia of Twentieth Century Illustrations: New Piecture of Truth from Current Events and Recent Inventions and Discoveries, for the Use of Preachers, Sunday-School Teachers and Christian Workers
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. 1918 Excerpt: ...only account book is a pocket memorandum and my only safe a pasteboard box, yet I am keeping a locked ledger. But if I would, then my business is safe, for I have taken as my partner the Treasurer of the universe! For One Hundred Dollars. What value do you place upon your life? A New York man valued his life at $100. ...
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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. 1918 Excerpt: ...only account book is a pocket memorandum and my only safe a pasteboard box, yet I am keeping a locked ledger. But if I would, then my business is safe, for I have taken as my partner the Treasurer of the universe! For One Hundred Dollars. What value do you place upon your life? A New York man valued his life at $100. He was the senior member of a firm that was running a dye-shop. An explosion of some dye-stuff set the place on fire, and the junior member dragged this man away after he had narrowly missed death in the explosion. But he happened to remember that he had left Juki in his coat in the shop. The junior partner tried to hold him, but in vain. Back he rushed into the midst of the flames for his f 100, and there, half an hour later, the firemen found him, his body burned to a crisp. You would never be so foolish? Ah, do not be so sure of that! For there is more than one way of throwing away one's life for one hundred dollars. You may throw it away in overwork, in the dull, heavy grind that crushes the true life out of the soul. You may throw it away in mad ambition. You may throw it away in empty pleasures. You may. throw it away in vice. In these ways millions of men are actually exchanging their lives for money, and for the things for which money stands in the great, gaudy catalogue of worldliness. And some of these ways are worse than fire, for that at least is a clean element of destruction. On the Mantelpiece, George Macdonald, I have heard, had a wise arrangement in his household. He always kept, on a convenient mantelpiece, a supply of money. The supply was renewed as it grew less, and it was never counted. All members of the family went to that mantelpiece and helped themselves. No questions were ever asked. It was the family treasury, and ev...
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