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spirit of generosity and helpfulness so surely shall
prosperity attend your effort as the years pass, and so
surely shall your enterprises meet with success.
Besides this you will act as a stimulant to others
who have more means to bestow: and your few dollars shall be augmented by other dollars until an endless chain is formed, and tight purses shall be opened
and hard hearts softened by your example.
Never for an instant allow yourself to fear poverty
and dependence. There is a type of so-called generosity which leads to the Almshouse. Many a man
who is called "a generous, open-hearted fellow, who
puts his hand in his pocket for every friend," dies
bankrupt and homeless. But investigation will prove
it is his wastefulness, outside of his generosity, which
brings the disaster.
Nothing is wasted which we give willingly and
lovingly to others, even if we find it was not worthily
bestowed, for the impulse left its benefit on our lives
and characters; but the money spent in show, display
and dissipation, in feasting and in extravagant entertaining in a desire to outdo our neighbors, or to make
our enemies jealous, that indeed is the waste which
leads to want.
Back of each visible being stands a host of invisibles, and by the nature of your thoughts and desires
and ambitions you determine the class of these invisibles who come at bidding to lend countenance and
strength to your undertakings.
Decide for yourself whether you desire the cooperation of the earth-bound gourmand, drunkard and
race-track suicide, the miser and money-hoarder, or
the great Spirits of Light, who were the philanthropists
and helpers of earth when here.
