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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 5, 1885

Economy.

Young people of to-day are apt to be very wasteful of little things, and know nothing of the economy practiced by some of the wisest and noblest men in former times. The founder of Phillips Academy at Exeter, who gave several thousand pounds to the institution, was very saving of candles, which were extremely scarce in those early times. At family worship in the evening, he would read the chapter by the light of a single candle, and then blow it out as the family knelt to pray. As his prayers were somewhat lengthy, quite a small fraction of the candle would be saved. Jonathan Edwards, when he lived at Stockbridge among the Indians, wrote a great part of one of his most famous books upon odds and ends of paper. In the British Museum there are preserved many famous manuscripts, and among them are several which show that the authors used paper which had been used before. Portions of Pope's translations of Homer were written upon backs of letters, the creases of which can still be discerned.—Congregationalist.