The Bible and Prosperity.
By Dr. Chalmers
THE exemption of Scotland from the miseries of pauperism is due to the education which their people receive at schools, and to the Bible which their scholarship gives them access to. The man who subscribes to the divine authority of this simple saying, "If any would not work neither should he eat," possesses, in the good treasure of his own heart, a far more effectual security against the hardships of indigence than the man who is trained, by the legal provisions of his country, to sit in slothful dependence upon the liberalities of those around him.—Dr. Chalmers.