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Show ECONOMICS ' IN THE BIBLE Everlasting Truth to Be Found In One of the Injunctions Laid Oowq y Christ, There Is a vast deal of sound eco Qomtra In the new testament, says a writer In the American Magn2lne.- Be si'iflsh nobly. ' "Love., thy neighbor as thyself." When Christ said thnt,. he set It down as an everjasttng tn?tl that mnn must Jove vhimself in' order to' achieve 'anything i.t iH In this world, and thnt, the attempt to love auother hs he does himself is to'strUgr gle toward nn Ideal. ,Xi , , m , Moreover, when he r told the rich younfr mnn to give" all he had to the poor, he jjssued the command not be-" cause' he despised money and tha things money 'symbolizes, but-because he stuv thnt tills particular young mnn wns a winter, one who "couldn't stand prosperity," and that the use he made ! of his money harmed him Instead of helping him. There were "quarter horses" 2,000 years ago, Just as there are "quarter horses" today. j To be aelflsh In a fine way Is to oarry out one's highest destiny. That Is real philosophy. It Is also real com- j mon sense. Why Is a man put Into the world If It Is not to make the best j of hlmRelf, to Improve himself, to Impress Im-press himself on his community and his world T That is just what be Is Intended to do. And he does it In two way: The first Is by his acqutsftlveness, his power pow-er to get things; It matters not whether wheth-er what he gets Is money, or learning, or power of eloquence, or the serenity ' of lofty thought. The second Is by using us-ing properly what he has got whether It is money, or learning, or power. And If he does use It properly he IS on sure ground. To use It properly means that he uses It for his own good and. Incidentally, for tbe good of others, that he wastes 't neither In foolish living nor in, extravagant living, liv-ing, and, above all, that he uses it so that It Increases even while It la being be-ing used, so that, In the end, he always grows In power and self-sufficiency. |