Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1919 — ONE MAN’S BEST INVESTMENT [ARTICLE]

ONE MAN’S BEST INVESTMENT

-Special" Account Opened by Man* •ger of Big Enterprises Has Paid Big Dividends. An American business man had become convinced of the reasonableness of the doctrine of man’s stewardship. He had Ihpuggt it all out and decided that it might be a good thing to try the experiment. His, various business enterprises had prospered; his income was constantly increasing; be certainly could do things which he night have done but had not. One night he lay awake pondering the whole matter, and before going to sleep prayed over it. made up hltf mind, says the ChdMhn Herald. Next morning he Instructed his bookkeeper to open In the ledger a new account in his name, and marked . ‘lmperial,’’ to which the bookkeeper should regularly carry one-tenth of all the profits. He warned him never to fail to have the "Special” account ready when called for. And- that business, man’s “Special” has never failed. It has been to him a wonderful revelation of the capacity of a man immersed in big enterprises for doing good on a large scale as a Side line. It has helped to build churches, to promote the gospel, to support missionaries, to maintain and train orplians, ,to bring gladness to homes of suffering and to many shutins. He has had a hand In a hundred noble enterprises for Christ and humanity. And the most extraordinary thing about it is that it has “given him a new zest for business, having, as he himself would say reverently, God as a silent partner. It has not only been a means of blessing" bis business, but it has purified his whole life, ennobled his character and made him ten times a better man. ' • ■