Hard Work and Slow Gains.
A BUSINESS man is doing well, conducting a safe business, supporting his family, and saving a few hundred annually. But the process is slow and the labor hard, and he turns his thoughts to some lucky expedient to avoid labor and increase gain. He reads of some remarkably lucky ventures in stocks on Wall Street, or in mines in some distant State or Territory, and he risks his money, weakens his business and credit at home, and loses all. It was an evil hour when he became dissatisfied with small profits, hard work, and slow gains. It was rebellion against the law of God that will not allow men to get rich hastily. Ruin will follow him in the years to come. Perhaps one-half of all the men who are to-day engaged in business that they understand, and are succeeding reasonably well, are dissatisfied at heart with their condition, and meditate by the hour on changing place and business so as to make money faster, and is it out of the way to say that more failures than successes result from such changes? Yet men are slow to learn; and it is an evil day when both observation and experience fail as teachers.