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happiness in using this power in doing good ; in succoring those 

 who need succor ; in helping those who are trying to help 

 themselves ; in encouraging and stimulating self-respect, and a 

 virtuous ambition to make their condition better, even in the 

 most humble j in proving himself the friend of the friendless : 

 in protecting and rewarding industry, sobriety, and frugality, not 

 in a niggardly, but a generous manner ; in sharing some liberal 

 measure of his abundance with those by whose labor, under the 

 blessing of Heaven, this abundance has been created ; and in 

 sending light, and comfort, and plenty, into the cottages and 

 hearts of those who have sowed his fields, and brought on their 

 toil-worn shoulders the fruits of their cultivation to his stores. 

 The golden harvests of such a man in every wave reflect 

 Heaven s purest sunshine j his dew-bespangled fields glitter 

 with a radiance brighter than ever shone in a regal diadem ; 

 and the happiness and joy, which he sends into the homes and 

 hearts of others, return in gushing streams to flood hjs own home 

 and his own heart. 



I know my poor words will find a warm response in many a 

 kind bosom, and, by Heaven s blessing, may throw a spark into 

 that smoking flax, which too much of what is called prosperity 

 may not yet have quenched. There are many such hearts ; but 

 in general we see &quot; who gets the lion s share.&quot; To reason 

 with avarice, is well nigh desperate. If it were an iceberg, we 

 might hope that, under the rays of a clear sun, it might be made 

 to trickle ; but it is a mass of granite, which, like the monu 

 mental column in Trafalgar Square, stands wholly unmoved by 

 the forlorn and pitiable objects of destitution and wretchedness, 

 whom I have often seen, in a winter s day, sunning themselves 

 at its base ; and remains alike impervious to heat or cold, to calm 

 or storm, to summer s fires or winter s frosts. 



3. RESULTS OF THE GERMAN EXPERIMENT. The friend, to 

 whom I have referred, has three hundred laborers in his employ 

 ment. He says, the system works well ; and that every year s 

 experience gives him stronger confidence in its justice and 

 advantages. First, his work is done ; secondly, it is done in 

 the best manner in which his laborers are able to execute it, 

 because it as the interest of all that it should be done, and well 

 done. The laborers have a system of rules and fines among 



