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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 9, 1882

Mark This, Boys.

Did you ever know a man who grew rich by fraud continue successful through life and leave a fortune at death? This question was put to a gentleman who had been in business forty years. After reflecting a while he said:—

"Not one. I have seen many men become rich, as if by magic, and win golden opinions, when some little thing led to the exposure of their fraud, and they have fallen into disgrace and ruin. Arson, perjury, and suicide, are common crimes with those who make haste to be rich regardless of the means."

Boys, stick a pin here. You will soon be men and begin to act with those who make money. Write this good man's testimony in your mind, and with it put this word of God, "He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him."

Let these words lead you to resolve to make haste slowly when you go into business in the matter of making money.—Christian Cynosure.