Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from China's Millions, 1914, Vol. 22
A man once bought a farm, and by hard work he eked out a poor existence from it. At last he died, at which time his son inherited the farm. This son, by hard toiling, supported himself and family, though he had this advantage over his father that he found on his place some black stuff which would burn, and with which he fed his fires. Finally, this second farm er died, when his son inherited the place. After this, he too toiled and labored, and fed his fires. But one day an engineer passed that way and pointed out to the farmer that the out-cropping of that black stuff meant that there was a coal mine beneath the farm. So a company was formed, and they dug deep. That last farmer is now a millionaire. His grandfather and father had lived over that illimitable wealth for all their lives. But they had never known it and had died poor. And the last man would have repeated the sad experience had not his engineer-friend told him to leave his petty, surface farming, and to dig deep. And there is One who speaks to us, who bids us to go deeper down. May we have done, therefore, with surface living. In dwelling deep we shall find, not only safety, but also riches untold.
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