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The Misuse of Inherited Wealth

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 15, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 11.

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The Misuse of Inherited Wealth

By Religious Herald

THE widow of a Baptist deacon, who died four years ago, said to us a few days ago as she sat in her parlor: "The great mistake of my husband's life was leaving $200,000 to his children. My oldest son had not been in possession of his portion six months before he acquired intemperate habits; and to-day, wrecked in health and morals, he hasn't a dollar left of the thousands his father left him. My daughter married an immoral man who spent her portion, and now her life is sad and dreary. It would have been a thousand times better had my husband devoted his means more largely to education and Christianity."