"I know this is said, but it is a great mistake. Poor people are, as a general thing, just as unfeeling and selfish as rich people, and stand no better chance of heaven. So far as poverty or riches are concerned, there is an overruling Providence regarding each, and this, as I before remarked, looks to the salvation of souls in heaven."
"Then it isn't because one man is better than another, that he is permitted to get rich, or has money left to him?"
"Not by any means, William," replied the father. "No man's state can be judged of by his external condition: for the external condition that is good for one, may be very bad for another. Ever bear this in mind, as you pass through life, and learn, no matter in what external condition the Lord places you, therewith to be content."
Transcriber's note for
Means of Enjoyment
: The word "vail" was replaced with "veil" in the sentence
["It seemed as if a veil had suddenly been drawn from before his eyes."]