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are constantly being received. The value of these 

 benefits cannot be set forth in an account book, 

 therefore the greater necessity of taking a kindly 

 interest in the welfare of others. Our world is 

 just as large as we make it. Interest may be cen- 

 tered largely in self or in "Me and my wife, my 

 son John, and his wife, us four and no more," or 

 it may be as extended as our knowledge and as 

 genuine as the interest taken in one's family. 



As has already been stated, logically, there is 

 no debit without a credit. Learn to remember 

 one as religiously as the other. In brief, learn 

 to keep accounts. Keep them in double entry. 

 So far as possible make them balance. Where 

 they do not balance, make this entry: By bal- 

 ance, love and good will. 



