BLUNT BUT TRUE | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 11, 1877

BLUNT BUT TRUE.

There is said to be a young man in the Missouri penitentiary whose parents, at their death, left him a fortune of $50,000. There is where his parents made a fatal mistake. If they had taken the precaution to invest that sum in a small dog, and shot him, and then had simply left the young man a jack-plane or a wood saw, with printed instructions how to use it, the chances are that, instead of being in the penitentiary, he would to-day have been gradually but surely working his way up to a handsome competency and an honorable old age. But ever since the days of Adam and Eve, parents have made it a point to toil and struggle all their lives in order to realize a sufficient sum of money to purchase, when they are dead and gone, their sons each a first-class through ticket to the devil; and it is not much to be wondered at that so many of their sons, reared in vice and idleness, as too many of them often are, have no higher ambition than to invest their inheritance in just that sort of transportation. —Sel.