THE WAY TO WEALTH.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 27 February 1880, Page 2

THE WAY TO WEALTH.

_ , ■^..^ m. The Rer. Dr. R. D. Hitchcock, who is not only a prominent theologian, but c profound thinker, says j— ' Suppose no muscle is put info the land j no sweat moistens it; it g-.es back into its original wildness, and that which formerly supported one hundred civilised men, affords support for one savage. The value which land possesses has developed by labor. Have you considered how shortlived labor is P Crops last no more than a year. Railways, so long as you stop work upon them, go to pieces rapidly and cease to be valuable, Houses have to be made over constantly. St. Peter's Church, at Rome, one of the most solid of structures, is repaired annually at a cost of £8000. [The Reverend Doctor might have added, mechanics actually live in bouses erected on the top of St. Peter's that they may watch for auy defect and attend to any leak in the roof, Ed ] A great part of the wealth of the world is only twelve months old j when men stop working it passes away. Sup* pose ycu earn 8* a day, and spend the same, at the end of the year you are no better off than at the beginning. You have only lived. Suppose you spend s*, then you have become a capitalist. I began to preach at £120 a year; I've been there and know what it is, My rule was then, and has been ever since, to live within my income, So it would* hate been, no matter what my business. Spend less than you earn ; ,tben you will acquire capital, and your capital will be as good as that of any other man,'*— Scientific American.