Christian herald and signs of our times . ction. The first thing is to get hold ofthe principle, or rather to let the principle gethold of you. When once that is done you willfind your work. You need not go a stones-throw from your own door to find men con-demned to a life of poverty who might becomehappy and independent by the timely loan of alittle capital. Others there are who are sick andwill die if no hand is held out to provide a phy-sician or to pay little sums due for rent or food—debts the consciousness of which gives thefatal force to disease and depresses the spirit sothat recovery
Christian herald and signs of our times . ction. The first thing is to get hold ofthe principle, or rather to let the principle gethold of you. When once that is done you willfind your work. You need not go a stones-throw from your own door to find men con-demned to a life of poverty who might becomehappy and independent by the timely loan of alittle capital. Others there are who are sick andwill die if no hand is held out to provide a phy-sician or to pay little sums due for rent or food—debts the consciousness of which gives thefatal force to disease and depresses the spirit sothat recovery is hopeless. There are widowswho are struggling who might be aided to startboarding-houses or some little business ; girlsworking for a pittance on which they cannotsupport themselves, and hesitating whether theyshall sell their virtue for the money they needso badly for food or perhaps for the support ofan aged parent depending upon them. Oh,there are innumerable ways of usefulness opento a rich man who wants to serve his Edwards Explains Self-Sacrifice to the Exquisite. But that involves so much trouble andworry. Yes ; it is not easy. There would be noglory in it. if it were. But what a grand life itis ! It is the life of a man. A life of self-grati-i fication is the life of—well, I wont say what itis, but I hope you will not live it. Margrave sighed. If he could have the bless-ing without the exertion he would, he felt, be! glad to have it, even at the cost of money. I will think of it, he said. I never took that! view of my duty before. He did think of itj for some time afterward, but it was idle thought! which led to nothing. He went the way of otherrich men—of him who went away from the Mas-I ter sorrowful, having great With all the charities and religious institutionsindebted to the wealthy for great gifts, the timehas not yet come when those to whom Godhas given wealth have learned their duty inusing it. A FATAL FRAUD. AN ORIGINAL SERIA
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