LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

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Be as diligent with other people's interests as you would they should be with yours. Make deposits of stated sums weekly or monthly in savings banks, until sufficient has accumulated to be used in more remunerative investment. Be willing to consult with business men of discreet and conservative reputation respecting the character of any and all inducements offered concerning investments. They have not lived in vain. They have seen optimistic expectations doomed to disappointment. They may be "slow" and "Old Fogy," but they doubtless have paid well for what they know. They have had experience that is always wise to respect. As a protection, if not an investment, take out a life insurance policy for an amount you can readily pay for, in one of the many safe, sound, and conservative companies, upon the endowment plan. The prejudice and superstition that once existed against life It was once argued that to insure one's life was a distrust of God--a form of wager with a corporation that you would live out the allotted period written in your insurance paper, or that you must die in order to win. The guarantee that, by the payment of a certain sum per annum for a certain term of years, you should have a certain sum of money returned to you in case you were alive, or if you did not live, your heirs or dependents should have it at your death--was but a straight, strict business transaction, based upon definite calculations and long years of observation--removed the element of chance from the proposition. To the little things that make for wealth must not be omitted: 4. Liberality. I do not mean the wealth of soul that comes from sympathizing in a substantial way with the distressed, but, as a means to wealth, systematic, proportionate giving, beginning with the tithe of one's 46 of 102
income, and increasing as God prospers, is as essential to the accumulation of wealth as industry or economy. It is a form of judicious investment. "He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will reward him for what he has done." (Proverbs 19:17.) Isn't that good security? Will He pay less interest than an ordinary savings bank? "There is one who scatters and yet increases; and there is one who withholds more than is fit, but it tends to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he who waters shall be watered also himself." (Proverbs 11:24-25.) "Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor--he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." (Proverbs 21:13.) That a portion of our earnings belongs to God, and the withholding of it from Him is robbery--is a truth of divine origin. We save only when we are honest with God. "Give, and it shall be given unto you." Enter into partnership with the Almighty. Say at the beginning of your life's pilgrimage: "If God will be with me and keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to put on--then shall the Lord be my God, and of all that You shall give me I will surely give the tenth unto You." That's a common-sense contract! He who gives you power to get wealth, will not withdraw Himself from you, but will be your stay, and your shield, and your exceeding great reward! Be industrious; Be economical; Be judicious; 47 of 102
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Page 3 and 4: THE GREATNESS OF LITTLE THINGS Intr
Page 5 and 6: THE GREATNESS OF LITTLE THINGS Intr
Page 7 and 8: of nature, of mental activity, pass
Page 9 and 10: civilization; or a Japanese to find
Page 11 and 12: the life we live-- all these, small
Page 13 and 14: It is because we have despised the
Page 15 and 16: man's ways please the Lord, He make
Page 17 and 18: Is wealth beyond our reach? Perhaps
Page 19 and 20: ut remark at what they see and feel
Page 21 and 22: It is begun by a determination to s
Page 23 and 24: ight, have the courage of your righ
Page 25 and 26: If there is any other virtue, think
Page 27 and 28: 1. NEGATIVELY. It might safely be s
Page 29 and 30: and positive delight at the discomf
Page 31 and 32: food and clothing and shelter, ther
Page 33 and 34: invested, the days grow into weeks,
Page 35 and 36: Horace, the Latin poet, said: "You
Page 37 and 38: things are yours . . . whether the
Page 39 and 40: If we were now, and had been from t
Page 41 and 42: have a view of the struggle for exi
Page 43 and 44: Preparation for service is the firs
Page 45: The wastefulness of the average man
Page 49 and 50: That this body of ours, wonderfully
Page 51 and 52: should thus be admitted. So sudden
Page 53 and 54: have not been met. Will faith heal
Page 55 and 56: should have our constant care and o
Page 57 and 58: sleep;" "Lost an hour of sleep;" "L
Page 59 and 60: house and clothes. "I feel so chill
Page 61 and 62: atmosphere and surroundings favorab
Page 63 and 64: But something more is needed than f
Page 65 and 66: said Socrates, "is no life at all."
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Page 69 and 70: into the cab, and, in response to a
Page 71 and 72: Philip Gilbert Hamerton says that t
Page 73 and 74: One final and most important truth.
Page 75 and 76: then, the beginning of that mighty
Page 77 and 78: only with trumpets and lamps; the M
Page 79 and 80: If a system of human slavery is to
Page 81 and 82: Contrast our position with the posi
Page 83 and 84: that fled from Jehu, Elisha slew;"
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Page 91 and 92: IX. Lessons Learned Too Late. "Oh,
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Page 95 and 96: and bemoan their folly and their lo
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lessedness of the giver himself. No
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the winds the seeds of the thistle,
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The opportunity that is restricted
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