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Show USE AND ABUSE OF BLESSINGS. 315 can live on greens," while at the same time there was more wasted that season-than to make up the deficiency, that all might have been comfortable. Late in the fall I saw one man working among his corn ; he had a large crop, more than a single man could take care of. I saw he Avas going to let it go to waste ; I said to him, " Brother, let the brethren and sisters help you to husk your corn, to gather it and put it safely away, for so much it will benefit them and help you. " O," he replied, " I have nothing to spare, I can take care of it myself." I saw it wasting, and said to him, " Brother, get your corn husked immediately, and let the brethren do it, and pay them with a portion of it." He replied, "I cannot spare a bit of it." I have no question of it at all in my mind, but three-fourths of his corn went into the mud, and was trampled down by the cattle; and women and children went without bread in consequence of it. That man had no judgment, he knew not what to do with his blessings the Lord had bestowed upon him. Were I to ask the question, how much wheat or anything else a man must have to justify him in letting it go to waste, it would be hard to answer; figures are inadequate to give the amount. Never let anything go to waste. Be prudent, save everything, and what you get more than you can take care of yourselves, ask your neighbors to help you. There are scores and hundreds of men in this house, if the question were asked them if they considered their grain a burthen and a drudge to them, when they had plenty last year and the year before, that would answer in the affirmative, and were ready to part with it for next to nothing. How do they feel now, when their granaries are empty ? If they had |