GOING INTO DEBT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 40, 27 February 1878, Page 3

GOING INTO DEBT.

! "Half -the young men iri the couptry, ■ wi,th. many old enough to. know better, . woulpl "go intp, brisiness,""' thftt ia into J debt to-mprrpw^. i^ ; th^y cbu^ . Most i pooif men are. sp igporanb ; as to- envy the merchant and" rqapufacturer, whose life' is, an incessarit struggle with 1 pecuniary diffipujtiesx; "^hb is: driven, to .constant." shining J and^ who from month to month barely evades that ihsolv.ency i which .- sppper pr.:la.ter- overtak.QS, most men m business-;- so,; that it has been computed that butpne m twenty of them iaphipves a pecuniary' success. For. my . pjicri,; partT^and. I s peak . from, sad ex-pcricnce-rrlwouild}: r,atUer bp a; convict m a State prison, a slave m at rice jswjani^, thaa.toipass through life under the harrow, of debt. Let np man misjudge himself unfortunate or truly pppr as long as he has the full use of his hmbs japdi faculties, and -is substantially free .from, debt.; cold, rags, hard I work,, contempt, suspicion^, unjust re-, iproach are disagreeable; but debt is* iinfinitely worse than them all. I repeat, 'my- young friends*, avoid 'pecuniary ph? 1 ligfttij ng. a_3 you yporijd pestilence and faminp.. "X ybtt.haye but fifty cents and icap get'rio,mpre for ' a,- week, buy a peck vof corn, parch- it and lixe on Ml rather*. than owe any^ man a^ dollar h Of course !-I knqwthat some m,eri mugt dbbusinesa; * that ipypiv.es. risk,,, apd must often give nptes; ap d, othpr obligations,, and I jdonptfipnsider him realty iri debt who icanday his liandjdir.eeilily, on thftriijjans.of paying;, af; some, little sacrifice all he iow,ea, ; L speak-of,rea.i dpb r »„ that) whjphj linrolvicSi nsk\ or.- sacrifipe On; the one side, obligation apd dpßpnderice on the : other ;. and! I< say,, from all such let .ey^ery. ypufh, hiimbly pray God to preserve hijjn everriiore .'!"—-" J^forape Grjee-