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pecuniary remuneration, but that he may add to the comfort 

 of others. He will then be able to grasp the great truth that 

 time and money are only two names for the one form of wealth. 

 That it is not money, but a question of how much time and 

 strength our brain and constitution will permit us to devote to 

 helping in the assistance, maintenance and the enjoyment of 

 others that will obtain us the rewards of Joy, Pleasure and 

 Content for and in our physical and mental devotion to strive 

 to labour that others may live, to bear the troubles, cares and 

 reverses of life like men, not selfish animals, and to be careful, 

 wise and temperate and economical, that, by finding the 

 greatest amount of profitable employment for ourselves and 

 our weaker brethren, God may deem us worthy of success by 

 giving us the control of wealth, and last, but not least, the 

 love and respect of those beneath us. For, failing to gain this 

 last, the reward of true charity, kind words, generous deeds 

 and assisting the worthy to advance, and forgiving and help- 

 ing the frail and weak, is the true Charity that covers a 

 multitude of sins, and for which alone we are to receive the 

 rewards of Joy, Pleasure, Content and Happiness. 



True virtue is to let the useless poor starve that we may 

 enable weak but willing workers to live ; to help those who 

 help themselves, for it is folly to help the man who will not 

 help himself, no matter what his misery or poverty, for this 

 only encourages pauperism, which, after folly and indolence, 

 is the greatest of all crime and should be punished by slavery 

 for life in a government prison, not by wasteful giving of 

 alms in useless directions so that we may receive the plaudits 

 of fools ; to forgive the weak and repentant sinner, whose sins 

 are teaching him the wisdom of amending his failing and 

 erring ways ; to be courteous to inferiors and love and take 

 them to our hearts and homes in exact proportion as they show 

 us honour, reverence and respect ; to respect and love and 

 obey those above us, so that when we are wise enough to rise 

 they may assist us to enter the everlasting dwellings of our 

 fathers ; not to look down on our inferiors or envy our 

 superiors, for these sins are greater offences in the eyes of 

 God than murder in anger, or polygamy in marriage. And 

 last, but most important of all, we must learn that true happi- 

 ness can only be obtained by catching on its rebound the 

 happiness we give to others by leading useful lives and can 

 only be the reward of a life well spent. 



