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catcher, “ Unhappy wretches,” said he, “you now
suffer the punishment of your former neglect.”
LESSON XLI.
MONEY,
mon-ey brew-er Pro-vi-denoe
shoe-ma-ker trou-ble-some Chris-ti-an
fam-i-ly oau-tion-ed Ju-de-&
8Xx-change ANX-i-OUS a-pos-tle
but-oher right-e-ous-ness col-leo-tion
What a useful thing is money! If there were
NO such thing as money, we should be much at a
loss to get any thing we might want. "The shoe-
Maker, for instance, who might want bread, and
Meat, and beer for his family, would have nothing
6 give in exchange but shoes. He must, therefore,
30 to the baker, and offer him a pair of shoes for
as much bread as they were worth; and the same,
If he went to the butcher, and the brewer, "The
baker, however, might happen not to want shoes
lust then, but might want a hat: and so the shoe-
Maker must find out some hatter who wanted
Shoes, and get a hat from him, and then exchange
the hat with the baker for bread. All this would
be very troublesame; but, by the use of money,
he trouble is saved. Any one who has money
May get for it just what he may chance to want.
The baker, for example, is always willing to part
With hıs bread for money, because he knows that
he may exchange it for shoes, or a hat, or firing, or
any thing else he necds. What time and trouble
It must have cost meu to exchange one thing for
Anotier before money was in use.
We are cautioned in Scripture against the love