$30,000.


An anonymous writer says of himself, that he commenced business and

prosecuted it in the usual way till he lost $900, which was all he was

worth, and found himself in debt $1,100.



Being led by his trials to take God's word as his guide in business as

well as in heart and religion, he determined to give his earnings

liberally unto the Lord.



The first year he gave $12. For eighteen years the amount increased by

about 25 per cent., and the last year he gave $850, and he says he did

it easier than during the first year he paid the $12. Besides, though

with nothing but his hands to depend on when he began this course, he

paid the whole debt of $1,100 with interest, though it took him nine

years to do it.



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