Earn What You Spend.-

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1871

Earn What You Spend.—

Three fourths of the difficulties and miseries of men come from the fact that most want wealth without earning it, fame without deserving it, popularity without temperance, respect without holiness. The man who wants the best things, and is willing to pay just what they are worth, by honest effort and hard self-denial, will have no difficulty in getting what he wants at last. It is the men who want goods on credit that are snubbed, and disappointed, and overwhelmed in the end. Happiness can not be bought by the bottle, nor caught up by the excursion-train, nor put on with any robe or jewels, nor eaten at any feast. It does not exist in any exhilaration, excitement, or ownership, but comes from the use of the faculties of body and mind.