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of economy lias caused most of the failures in business whicli have 

 brouglit disti-ess and anguish into so many families. It is a great 

 evil in the present da}", when there is such a prevailing tendency 

 to reckless and extravagant expenditures. Every respectable 

 man in community should set his face against this evil, and show 

 by his example, that a rigid economy is necessary for success in 

 any bus! less in whiih we may be engaged. 



No man can expect to be successful in business w-ithout system. 

 His business must be well understood ; a plan must be Ibrmed, 

 and this plan must be well digested ; it must be properly arrang- 

 ed, the work must be performed at the right time, the buildings 

 must be so constructed as to render them most useful. Every 

 utensil must have its place, and all things connected with the 

 farm or shop, kept in such perfect order, tliat when they are 

 needed they can be found in their place, and applied to the use 

 for which thev are intended. The farmer or mechanic, whose 

 operations are carried on systematically, will accomplish twice as 

 much in a given time, as lie who goes into hisbusintss at random, 

 without any order or arrangement. The duty, the comfort and 

 tlie interest of every man, in v/hatever pursuit he may be engaged, 

 require that lie should be industrious, economical and ^'Stematic 

 System is the life of business. It is the great secret of the success 

 of some m^n who seem to prosper in whatever they undertake. 

 It is a maxim that diligence and perseverance surmount all ob- 

 stacles, but it must be a diligence and perseverance ordered by 

 system — a well regulated system, according to which the energies 

 and activity of the mind are directed to the object in view. And 

 then the object will be accomplished, though there may be a 

 thousand diihcultits in the w^ay ; for there is something in the 

 mind of man so buoyant tliat it will rise above all obstacles, when 

 its energies are properly directed. Man is an active being, natu- 

 rally inclined to be engaged in some employment, and when he 

 ives himself up to indolence and sloth, he renders himself 

 not only entirely useless, but he perverts and abuses those powers 

 and faculties with which his Creator has endowed him, that he 

 may be actively engaged in some virtuous calling. 



In some countries the people are oppressed. The industrious 

 ar.n^r , wdio labors hard for the support of his family, is so bur- 



