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Do It By All Means 
 
 By William Ashmore 
 
 “Do It By All Means” and ‘‘Don’t on Any Account” 
 were written by Dr. Ashmore some time before his 
 death, but were not published during his lifetime. 
 
 OUNG Baptist business man. You are 
 now beginning to set up for yourself. 
 Junior partner at first, perhaps, with small 
 interest to begin with. You expect to get 
 ahead. Make a good living. Good. The 
 Lord bless you in it, and make you to grow 
 like Joseph’s fruitful bough. Even a fruitful 
 bough by a well whose branches run over a 
 wall. 
 
 But would you not yourself like to take in a 
 partner? Heed my suggestion. Take the 
 Lord Jesus as the partner in your business. 
 Set apart to him some percentage of the pro¬ 
 ceeds. Whatever you choose, being much or 
 little, only mark it off religiously and dispose 
 of it in ways you yourself may think best to 
 subserve the Master’s interest. Let him share 
 your profits and he will share your losses with 
 you. When you make, what a pleasant thing 
 it will be to consider that you are sharing with 
 Christ and when you lose—you may some 
 time—what a comforting thing it will be to 
 know that you have a sympathizer in him. 
 Your gains will be all the sweeter and your 
 losses will be all the more bearable when you 
 have somebody like the Lord Jesus to help 
 you cariy r the load. 
 
Don V On Any Account 
 
 /”\LD Baptist man of business. You are a 
 man of affairs. You have got your 
 hands in. You know how to do things. You 
 know how to turn over a dollar so as to make 
 another dollar. In your own line you are an 
 expert. The neighbors all praise you. You 
 are worthy of praise. Your success in life is 
 the proof of it. You have got ahead wonder¬ 
 fully in gaining a competency. You have 
 bank shares; you have stock shares of various 
 kinds. You are able to take it easy, and you 
 can throw off a good share of your burden on 
 the junior partners. And now, because you 
 have got enough laid up to keep you and your 
 family for the rest of your life you propose 
 retiring, as they call it, and becoming a gentle¬ 
 man of leisure. Well, you deserve it. 
 
 But there is just where the “Don’t” comes 
 in. You have made money enough for your 
 own wants; you don’t need to work now, and 
 yet what an amount of vigor there is about you. 
 Why waste it ? Why not use your experience 
 and your capacity to do a little business and 
 make a little money for your Master. His 
 household is sometimes awfully barren of meat. 
 Let the young men take up the bulk of the 
 work and have their share of the profit, but 
 just reserve a little corner in your office at 
 which you will do business for your Master, 
 and turn over the money you get to him. You 
 will find it the greatest luxury under heaven. 
 
AMERICAN BAPTIST 
 MISSIONARY UNION 
 
 BOSTON, MASS. 
 
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 THE TREASURER 
 
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