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6 subtle laws of sympathy running through the entire family of man, will assert themselves, and 'when one member suffers, they all suffer.' Perhaps in the world's history there has never been such universal unrest as now; such care and anxiety for the means of living, on the one side, and such remorseless greed on the other. One state is begotten by the other. When a few want all, and will use any means to obtain it, then the many who have nothing, must feel apprehensive and anxious. While the few are very rich, the many must necessarily be poor. For, while there is not wealth enough on the globe, to make one millionaire out of a hundred thousand, yet there is enough for all to have Homes and a competence.

But with such wide-spread poverty, and sorrow, and want around him, even the millionaire cannot be happy, on the principle I have just hinted at.

"God sees in the human race a family of brothers and sisters, and He docs not permit that a small minority shall be happy, and remain at the same time careless and indifferent to the miseries and sufferings of their fellow-creatures. Let those who have means at their command, discover the methods of placing the people in situations where they can help themselves to secure homes, and be free from the threatened contingencies of poverty and want, and they will discover, at the same time, the true source of their own happiness. There are, on the part of the money lords and millionaires generally, a selfishness and indifference, which are as reprehensible as they are destructive to their own