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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 4.

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MISPLACED SHAME.

Mr. Beecher writes to the Ledger: “Explain to me, if you can, Mr. Bonner, why it is that so many young people are ashamed to have it thought they have no money? or why is it that they are ashamed of economy in the management of slender means, and of frugality in living? There is no disgrace in being an acorn before being an oak. Young people frequently wish that they were grown men; but they are not ashamed of being young! No one is ashamed to have it discovered that his strength, knowledge, and skill, are proportioned to his years. But these same persons will blush and suffer shame at being supposed not to have money, under circumstances in which all the sensible world knows that they ought to have none!”