--_Our Dumb Animals_.
THE SIN OF EXTRAVAGANCE
"It may be a folly, but you would not think of calling extravagance a sin?"
asked a young man of his minister.
"I do not care to offend you by harsh terms, but if we agree that it is a
folly, that is reason enough for wishing to be wiser."
"But it is very easy to spend money when one is with others, and one does
not like to be called 'tight.'"
"John," said the minister, "I do not propose to argue with you, but I want
to tell you two stories, both of them true, recent, and out of my own
experience. They will illustrate the reason why, knowing you as well as I
do, having baptized you and received you into the church, I cannot view
without concern your growing extravagance, and the company into which it
leads you, and the interests from which it tends to separate you.
"A few months ago a young man came to this city, and spent his first days
here under my own roof. I have known his father for many years, an earnest,
faithful man, who has denied himself for that boy, and prayed for him, and
done everything that a father ought.
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