A MAN ‘IS RUINED’. WHAT DO WE MEAN?



Henry Ward Beecher puts it to us in these words:
“And we say a man is ‘ruined.’
Are his wife and children dead? Oh, no.
Have they had a quarrel, and are they separated from him? Oh, no.
Has he lost his reputation through crime? No.
Is his reason gone? Oh, no; it is as sound as ever.
Is he struck through with disease? No.
He has lost his property, and he is ruined.
The man ruined!
When shall we learn that ‘a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth’?”
And the story below tells us how mistaken we may be when we say a man ‘is ruined.’
Orison Swett Marden says, “A bankrupt merchant, returning home one night, said to his noble wife, “My dear, I am ruined; everything we have is in the hands of the sheriff.” After a few moments of silence the wife looked into his face and asked, “Will the sheriff sell you?” “Oh, no.” “Will the sheriff sell me?” “Oh, no.” “Will he sell the children?” “Oh, no.” “Then do not say that we have lost everything. All that is the most valuable remains to us,--manhood, womanhood, childhood. We have lost but the results of our skill and industry. We can make another fortune if our hearts and hands are left us.”
A man is not ruined in any ways when he loses his material possessions. If he keeps faith and work hard, and smartly, he can make for himself a much more fortune than he earlier had.

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