NO GAINS WITHOUT PAINS. 
 
 TRUE LIFE FOR THE BOYS. 
 
 BY H. C. KNIGHT. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE 
 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, 
 
 150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK.
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856. by O. R. 
 KINGSBURY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern 
 District of New York.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 TUE OLD HORSESHOE LITTLE DONKEY THE MOTHER'S 
 PRAYER, . . . '. .... 5 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 WHAT TO Do LEAVING HOME TOE APPRENTICESHIP, . 27 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS, .... 49 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 HIDDEN LIFE FIRE THE CHILDREN DOING GOOD, . 72 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 THE POOR A SCDDEN STROKE HAPPY ENDING, . 97
 
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 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE OLD HORSESHOE LITTLE DONKEY THE 
 MOTHER'S PRAYER. 
 
 ONE day a little boy on his way to school 
 picked up an old horseshoe. What did he do 
 with it? He carried it three miles to a black- 
 smith's shop, and sold it for a penny. It was 
 the first penny he ever had. "No gains with- 
 out pains," perhaps he thought. He did not 
 directly go and spend it. He laid it by ; and 
 we will see how he added to it. A short time 
 afterwards, a man who had been watching* a 
 boy carrying dirt from his father's door, called 
 Samuel, for that was our little boy's name, and 
 told him if he would beat that boy in carrying
 
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 dirt, he would give him a penny. Samuel tried 
 his hand, and earned the wages. 
 
 "Now," said the man, "if you will show me 
 this same penny in a fortnight, I will give you 
 another ; and I will make a mark on it, so as 
 to know it." He marked and gave it to Sam- 
 uel, for I suppose he knew how boys like to 
 spend, and he had a mind to try Samuel on 
 this point. In a fortnight he showed the man 
 the penny. "There it is, sir," said he. 
 
 " Good," said the man ; " you shall have anoth- 
 er ; you know how to keep, as well as to earn." 
 
 Samuel now had three pennies. An English 
 penny is two of our cents. He was, therefore, 
 according to our currency, worth six cents. 
 Perhaps you would like to know a little more 
 of his earnings. One day, one of his sisters, in 
 drawing molasses, let a quantity run over the 
 kettle she was filling on to the floor. She 
 took up all she supposed worth saving, and 
 was about to wash up the rest, when Samuel 
 asked if he might not have it ; and on his sis- 
 t<jr's giving him leave, he carefully scraped it 
 up, and sold it for three half-pence. How 
 many cents is that? Three cents : he has now, 
 then, nine cents.
 
 THE OLD HORSESHOE. 7 
 
 "No gains without pains," Samuel thought, 
 or at least he acted upon the principle, if a 
 penny was worth having, .it was worth the 
 trouble of earning. I am afraid all boys do 
 not think so. They like the penny, but are not 
 willing to work for it ; and therefore some 
 boys are tempted to get money in very ques- 
 tionable ways, which are apt to lead to disgrace 
 and ruin. 
 
 "What did Samuel do with his money?" 
 some one may have the curiosity to ask. It is 
 pleasant to know what people do with their 
 first earnings. As soon as he had enough, he 
 bo'ught a book with it, a hymn-book ; and then 
 he felt as rich and happy as could be. 
 
 Samuel lived in England. He was born in 
 the little village of Wrington, ten miles south- 
 west of Bristol, in 1794. Bristol is a large city 
 in the south-western part of England, one hun- 
 dred and fourteen miles west of London. When 
 Samuel was seven, his parents moved to Kings- 
 wood, a village on the edge of Bristol ; and as 
 this was the place where his life was spent, I 
 must stop in the story, and tell you a little 
 about Kingswood. 
 
 In old times, it was indeed, what its name
 
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 signifies, a king's wood ; for it was a tract of 
 three or four thousand acres of land, used by 
 the king and his nobles for a royal hunting- 
 ground. Besides the wild beasts which roamed 
 in this forest, there was a set of wild, lawless 
 men, called foresters, who had their haunts in 
 it. They were a terror to the country around, 
 for they lived by plunder and robbery, and it 
 was often dangerous for travellers, unarmed 
 and alone, to be found near this wood after 
 nightfall. But in the course of years, the deer 
 had gradually disappeared, and the forest and 
 the foresters. The reputation of the place, 
 however, had not much improved. The land 
 had been turned to better account: for coal- 
 mines had been discovered, which supplied 
 Bristol and the neighboring towns with fuel, 
 and supported a large population of colliers 
 men who work the coal-pits who had gradu- 
 ally settled on the soil. Their cottages had 
 been put up without much regard to order, 
 here and there and everywhere ; so that unless 
 very familiar, in trying to find the way among 
 them, one was quite sure to lose it among the 
 endless number of narrow lanes : crooked, turn- 
 ing, winding, crossing, and branching off. in all
 
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 directions. It was indeed a jumble of a town, 
 if it could be called a town. And the people 
 were as disorderly as their houses were. Bad 
 as the foresters had been, the colliers could 
 beat them in wickedness. A more ferocious 
 and brutal set of men never disgraced a Chris- 
 tian land. 
 
 When the famous preacher WHITEFIELD was 
 at Bristol, in 1739, and talked of coming to 
 this country to convert the Indians, some peo- 
 ple said, ' What is the need of going abroad 
 for this object? Have we not savages enough 
 at home? If you have a mind to convert Ind- 
 ians, there are colliers enough in Kingswood." 
 
 These remarks made a deep impression upon, 
 the mind of this good man. He could not turn 
 from his own countrymen. And when lie rode 
 over to Kingswood, and saw what the state of 
 the people really was, he felt his bowels yearn 
 over them, for he saw them as sheep without a 
 shepherd, given over to the devouring wolves 
 of sin and Satan. Nobody had cared for their 
 souls. They had no schools, no churches, no 
 Bibles, no preachers, no prayers. Sunk in deg- 
 radation and dirt, people seemed to think noth- 
 ing could be done to improve their. condition;
 
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 and although on the edge of a great Christian 
 city, Bristol, they had been left year after year, 
 and generation after generation, to grow up 
 and die in their wickedness. 
 
 
 
 But when Whitefield came, and "Wesley, and 
 their pious coadjutors, a new and better day 
 broke upon the darkness of Kingswood ; and the 
 success of their labors at Kingswood proved 
 that no people are too low or too hardened to 
 welcome the faithful preaching of the gospel 
 of Jesus Christ. . 
 
 "Yes," said Whitefield, first on the field, 
 "something can and must be done for these 
 poor people ; the Lord Jesus Christ came into 
 this world to seek and to save the lost ; if so, 
 the Kingswood colliers are just the people to 
 be saved." 
 
 In this spirit he went one afternoon over to 
 the collieries ; it was on Saturday, February 
 17, 1737, and a memorable day, because it was 
 the first day the gospel was ever preached 
 there. His church was the open air, and his 
 pulpit a little mound of earth. About two 
 hundred men, women, and children gathered 
 gapingly around to listen. "Who is he?" 
 "What does this mean?" they asked one of
 
 THE OLD HORSESHOE. 11 
 
 another. "What is he telling about? And 
 they run out of their cottages and stared and 
 hearkened. 
 
 How much they understood the first day I 
 cannot tell, but it is certain that they were 
 interested and pleased. His bright eye and 
 beaming countenance, the clear, sweet tones of 
 his voice, ringing in their ears words of love 
 and mercy, words of God and heaven and hell, 
 did not fail to attract them. He must have 
 seemed like some superior being come on an 
 errand of good. And as he passed by, his kind 
 look and friendly notice of one and another 
 drew hearts towards him. How they looked 
 wonderingly after him until out of sight; in 
 how many cottages and ale-houses was he talked 
 over that night. 
 
 A beginning of good was then and there made 
 at Kingswood. How did it go on ? On White- 
 field's second visit, two thousand people throng- 
 ed to hear him. On his third visit, from four 
 to five thousand. 
 
 i( The trees and hedges were full," he said ; 
 " all was a hush when I began ; the sun shone 
 bright, and God enabled me to preach over 
 an hour with great power, and so loud that all
 
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 could hear ine. Blessed be God! To behold 
 such crowds standing together in such awful 
 silence, and to hear their singing run from one 
 end to the other, was very solemn and striking." 
 "And how was I affected," he again says, 
 " when I saw the white gutters made by the 
 tears which plentifully fell down their black 
 faces black as they came out of their coal- 
 pits." 
 
 The poor colliers showed they had hearts to 
 feel the force of Bible truths. And the more 
 they heard, the more they wanted to hear. 
 Sometimes ten, fifteen, and twenty thousand 
 people are said to have crowded around this 
 remarkable preacher during his field-preaching 
 at Kingswood. Many, I suppose, came from 
 Bristol in their carriages, and on horseback. 
 Many, like Zaccheus, climbed up into the trees. 
 On all sides they pressed to hear him. 
 
 Mr. Whitefield, loath to leave this interesting 
 and important field of labor, and yet under the 
 necessity of leaving to meet engagements else- 
 where, wrote to his friend John Wesley, beg- 
 ging him to hasten to Bristol. Wesley obeyed 
 the call, and came without delay. Preaching 
 in the open air, or field-preaching, as it is called,
 
 THE OLD HORSESHOE. 13 
 
 was something altogether new, and what "Wes- 
 ley had never yet seen. He was not sure 
 whether he could approve of it. It seemed to 
 him a breach of order and propriety. But 
 when he saw how people were hungering for 
 the truth, and that no church could hold the 
 multitudes eager to hear, he was thankful for 
 any opportunity of preaching to them Jesus 
 Christ the Saviour of sinners. 
 
 Besides, he remembered how his Lord had 
 delivered his sermon on the mount. Accord- 
 ingly, the next day he followed the example 
 of his friend. He went out into a field, and 
 preached to a congregation of three thousand. 
 It was something he never was sorry for. " I 
 have since seen," he tells us, " abundant reason 
 to adore the wise providence of God herein, 
 making a way for myriads of people who never 
 troubled any church, and are never likely to do 
 so, to hear that word, which they soon found to 
 be the power of God unto their salvation." 
 
 But something more than preaching was nec- 
 essary. The children must be cared for the 
 " dear lambs," as "Whitefield calls them. Could 
 not a school be set up? This Whitefield pro- 
 posed to the colliers. The poor men were
 
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 much pleased, and promised to help by their 
 money or their work, and they begged him to 
 stay and lay the corner-stone of a new building 
 for that purpose. It did not seem very clear 
 where the money was to come from, for people 
 were not as ready to give their money for char- 
 itable objects then as they now are ; but both 
 Whitefield and Wesley had a great deal of 
 faith and courage. They acted much upon the 
 principle, Where there is a will, there is a way ; 
 and therefore they determined to lay the foun- 
 dation-stone of the 'new school, and then to lay 
 plans to build upon it. 
 
 Did their preaching produce much effect? 
 "By the grace of God, their labor was not in 
 vain/'' says an eye-witness of the change. 
 "Kingswood does not now, as a year ago, re- 
 sound with cursing and with blasphemy. It is 
 no more filled with drunkenness and unclean- 
 ness, and the idle diversions they lead to. It 
 is no longer full of wars and fightings, of clam- 
 or and bitterness, of wrath and envyings. 
 Peace and love are there. Great numbers of 
 the people are gentle, mild, and easy to be en- 
 treated. They do not 'cry, neither strive/ 
 and hardly is their voice heard in the streets,
 
 THE OLD HORSESHOE. 15 
 
 or indeed in their own ward, unless when they 
 are at their usual evening devotions, singing 
 praises unto God their Saviour." 
 
 Whitefield soon after left to visit the United 
 States. The home mission thus begun at 
 Kingswood, was carried on by Wesley, and 
 afterwards by his successors. 
 
 A marked reformation took place : but great 
 and noticeable as it was, a great deal of patient, 
 spiritual husbandry was necessary to perfect 
 the fruit, and especially to take care of the lit- 
 tle seeds and shoots of divine grace, and to 
 renew the seeds, and to weed the soil, and nur- 
 ture the young plants, and to bring forth a 
 harvest that should honor God. The bad hab- 
 its and wrong opinions of a large community 
 cannot be broken up in a day or a year, and 
 good habits and right notions directly formed. 
 There were still ale-houses. There were secret 
 places where thieves used to bandy together ; 
 and there were reckless, lawless fellows, who 
 of course hated the reformation which they 
 could not prevent, and who tried all they could 
 to hinder the progress of religion among their 
 companions. 
 
 Chapels had been built, schools had been
 
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 opened, faithful preachers had labored to bring 
 men to repentance and to walk in the fear of 
 God ; but when Samuel Budgett and his father's 
 family moved to Kingswood, there were still 
 many neighborhoods where wickedness lurked, 
 and there was work enough for God's people 
 to do. 
 
 The Budgetts were Wesleyan Christians. 
 They feared God, and tried to bring up their 
 family to love and serve him. They were poor, 
 but frugal and industrious, and on coming to 
 Kingswood, opened a shop on the " cassy," or 
 causeway. Samuel was seven at the time of 
 their moving. Here he found the horseshoe, 
 and here he went to such schools as the neigh- 
 borhood afforded. How many crumbs of know- 
 ledge he picked up we do not know ; but we 
 find he was twice punished at dame Stone's 
 school : once for picking up an apple under a 
 tree, and again for washing his shoe in her pan 
 of clean water. And what do you think the 
 punishment was? He was put in a corner, and 
 had a long, speckled worsted stocking drawn 
 over his head, with the foot dangling in his 
 face. 
 . He was afterwards sent to another school,
 
 LITTLE DONKEY. 17 
 
 where the chief instruction of the mistress was 
 telling the children stories about all sorts of 
 hobgoblins ; so I think we cannot call his early 
 advantages for schooling very superior ; on the 
 contrary, they were very poor. Samuel liked 
 the shop better than school ; perhaps he felt he 
 learned more there, for he used to observe 
 very carefully how business was done, and 
 sometimes he ventured upon small bargains on 
 his own responsibility. 
 
 One day a woman came into the shop with a 
 basket of cucumbers. Samuel asked the price 
 not only of one, but of her whole stock. His 
 oldest brother Henry, who was in the store, 
 thought him very inquisitive and forward, and 
 I dare say told him to be off. But Samuel said 
 he meant to buy the cucumbers, which he did ; 
 he then went and sold them in the neighbor- 
 hood, and made ninepence on the sale, which 
 is eighteen cents of our money. 
 
 A boy -merchant, is he not? Sometimes he 
 bought and sold eggs, chickens, pigs, always 
 with a fair profit, and once a donkey. 
 
 He met, one day, a man with an old donkey 
 and a little one. " How much will you take 
 for your little donkey?" asked Samuel, stop-
 
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 ping to examine the animals. " Two shillings 
 and sixpence," answered the man. "It is a 
 bargain, then," said the boy, who paid the man 
 his price, and led the little donkey home. A 
 few days afterwards, a woman offered five 
 shillings for it. She had no money then, she 
 said, but promised to pay him in a week. Not 
 thinking it safe to trust her promise alone, he 
 wanted security. " I have nothing in the world 
 to let you have," said she, " but a pair of stays." 
 "Very well," said Samuel, "I will take them, 
 for they are easily carried." He took them 
 home, and told his mother, when Mrs. Miles 
 brought the money, to give her back the stays. 
 But before the week was out, little donkey died. 
 The woman then wanted her stays back. " No," 
 said the boy, " the bargain was fair. Donkey 
 became your property, and donkey's dying is 
 therefore your loss, not mine." And so I sup- 
 pose the woman had to redeem her stays with 
 five shillings, or he sold them elsewhere. 
 
 Samuel's parents staid but two years at 
 Kingswood, when they gave up the shop to 
 Henry, and moved to Coleford. Henry was 
 Mr. Budgett's child by a former wife, and fifteen 
 years older than Samuel. At Coleford they
 
 THE MOTHER'S PRAYER. 19 
 
 opened another shop, but business was small, 
 the family large, and it was often difficult to 
 make the two ends of the year meet. Poor as 
 they were in earthly goods, they had riches 
 laid up in heaven ; and their trust in God made 
 them thankful and happy with their coarse fare. 
 The Wesleyan preachers were often welcomed 
 to their frugal table, and when they came, Sam- 
 uel loved dearly to listen to their pious conver- 
 sation. 
 
 When he was nine years old, passing early 
 one morning his mother's chamber, he heard 
 her voice in prayer, and he stopped to listen, 
 for she seemed praying with more than common 
 fervency. And who was she praying for? 
 What had sent her at this early hour of the 
 morning to the throne of God ? It was for her 
 son that this mother prayed. 
 
 " Oh," cried Samuel, " if my mother is so anx- 
 ious for my conversion, how anxious ought I 
 to be for it myself!" It struck him to the 
 heart. He went away by himself. He thought 
 over his many, many faults ; they never looked 
 so big and so serious and so awful before. He 
 saw how offensive they were in the sight of 
 God. He felt very unhappy. Would he go
 
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 away and try to forget them ; or would he seek, 
 in penitence and prayer, God's forgiveness and 
 favor ? 
 
 Samuel did not try to forget; he did not 
 want to banish serious thoughts from his mind. 
 He wished to be truly penitent ; and he prayed 
 God for his dear Son's sake to forgive him, 
 and to give him a new heart, a heart to hate 
 sin and to love the Saviour, a heart to obey his 
 will and keep his holy laws. 
 
 This little boy began on that day to pray, 
 meaning his prayer. A great many children 
 pray without minding what they say, or caring 
 whether God hears them; these are "words 
 upon a thoughtless tongue," and such prayer 
 cannot be acceptable to God. If you are very 
 anxious to have a favor granted to you by your 
 father, how carefully and how earnestly you 
 ask it; your manner and your tones are such 
 as show your interest in the matter. You can 
 hardly be put off. Your whole heart is en- 
 gaged in it. " Please, do/'' is your earnest cry. 
 This, you know, is the way to gain your father's 
 ear ; he will not turn you off ; he will hear, and 
 if it is best, how willingly will he grant your 
 request, and give you what you need. But God
 
 THE MOTHER'S PRAYER. 21 
 
 is more ready to hear and to answer your cries 
 for forgiveness and heavenly things, than earth- 
 ly parents are to give good gifts to their chil- 
 dren more ready. 
 
 But children sometimes say, I have prayed 
 I have prayed a great many times, but God 
 did not answer me. I have asked him to make 
 me a penitent, believing child ; but alas, I am 
 not. 
 
 Did you pray in earnest ? Did you keep on 
 praying ? Samuel was in earnest ; Samuel kept 
 on praying. And you see how God answered 
 prayer in the case of this mother and her son. 
 Among all her family cares and labors, what is 
 t\\Q first thing this mother wants? Her son's 
 conversion. That is the most important thing 
 of all. What is the first duty which the mother 
 of this large family engages in ? It is to pray 
 God for her son's conversion. 
 
 That mother was in earnest. And what 
 does Jesus say? "Ask, and ye shall receive." 
 I suppose this mother went to God in simple 
 and sincere reliance upon the word of his dear 
 Son. And God was as good as his word. The 
 mother's prayer fell like a blessing on the little 
 boy himself as he passed by her door. He went
 
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 away, and carried the blessing with him, for 
 God accompanied it by his Holy Spirit; and 
 when God blesses, nobody can snatch the good 
 from us. And what did it do? It did not 
 harden. It touched and softened him ; he shed 
 tears of penitence for himself, and it excited 
 him to turn unto God with his whole heart, and 
 pray for his own salvation. And he became a 
 child of God. These feelings did not pass 
 away from his mind, like early dew from the 
 flowers of the garden. He did not go back to 
 thoughtlessness and irreligion, as children often 
 do after they have been awakened to some de- 
 gree of concern for their souls. He kept on, 
 for God kept him. " They that seek me early 
 shall find me," is the gracious promise of our 
 heavenly Father. 
 
 Will not other children, and will not moth- 
 ers also take encouragement from this beautiful 
 example of Samuel and his mother, and believe 
 in God's willingness to hear and to answer 
 prayer ? 
 
 There was a poor woman very sick in the 
 neighborhood about this time, whose happy 
 experience of the value of religion on a sick 
 and dying bed strengthened Samuel in his de-
 
 THE MOTHER'S PRAYER. 23 
 
 sires to secure it. His mother often visited 
 poor Betty Coles, and on her return used often 
 to describe to the family the comfort and joy 
 which she experienced in her Saviour ; and 
 when she died, it seemed only a step from earth 
 to heaven. Samuel thought a great deal about 
 the happy death-bed of this good woman, and 
 he often went out into the fields in the summer 
 evenings to sing to himself the hymns which 
 cheered and comforted her ; and as he thought 
 and sung, death lost its terrors, and nothing 
 seemed more desirable to the boy than to go 
 home and live with his Saviour in heaven. 
 
 But Samuel did not die young, for God had 
 work for him to do on earth. 
 
 His mother in a few months was taken ill, 
 and brought very low. One night she was 
 thought to be dying. Samuel was suddenly 
 called up, old Bob was saddled, and the boy 
 was sent in all haste three miles on a dark 
 winter night for the doctor. A sorrowful ride 
 it must have been. Much as the doctor might 
 be able to do for his mother, Samuel believed 
 God could do far more, therefore he kept pra/- 
 ing all the way that her life might be spared, 
 and health again return to her.
 
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 On his way back the day began to dawn, and 
 as he was passing Mells park, a little bird 
 struck up a cheerful note just over his head. 
 The bird-song sounded most sweetly to him. 
 It filled him with feelings of joy and gratitude, 
 and seemed almost to assure him that God in 
 mercy would answer his prayer and restore his 
 dear mother to health. On reaching home he 
 could not help exclaiming, " Sister Betsey, moth- 
 er will get well." "What makes you think 
 so ?" she asked. " Oh, 1 feel that God will spare 
 her ever since I passed Mells park this morn- 
 ing." Sister Betsey saw no good reason for 
 laying aside her fears, I dare say, however the 
 boy might ; but this morning's ride was a ride 
 he loved to remember through his whole life, 
 for the experience of joy which he had in cast- 
 ing his load of sorrow upon God, and putting 
 his trust in him. God filled his bosom with a 
 sweet peace. 
 
 It might seem strange to some, that a poor 
 shivering little boy, on a sorrowful errand like 
 that, on a dark winter morning, far from home, 
 could feel very happy. There was certainly 
 nothing in his circumstances to make him hap- 
 py. Every thing looked as dark and comfort-
 
 THE MOTHER'S PRAYER. 25 
 
 less as could be. But when God fills the soul 
 with his joy and Aw peace, then a person will 
 be happy anywhere, no matter if he is in a 
 dungeon ; for true religion can make a person 
 happy without the aid of any thing else. This 
 was a taste of the enjoyment which God's chil- 
 dren have. Samuel, by penitence and prayer 
 and faith, had become God's child ; and I am 
 sure it tasted better than any thing else he 
 ever had. It is better than any thing father or 
 mother, or brother or sister, or minister or 
 friend can give better than any thing which 
 the whole world can offer. The whole world 
 and ten thousand worlds cannot give one drop 
 of comfort to the soul, like that which God can 
 give. 
 
 One of the old prophets said, " Although the 
 fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be 
 in the vines ; the labor of the olive shall fail, 
 and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock 
 shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall 
 be no herd in the stalls" a pretty desolate 
 picture of a famine it is " yet," he said, not- 
 withstanding this desolation and want, " I will 
 rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my 
 salvation."
 
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 Is not a religion that can give so much of 
 just what the heart craves, the hearts of chil- 
 dren as well as grown-up people, genuine happi- 
 ness is not such a religion worth having, 
 worth making sure of? Samuel thought so, as 
 we shall see. 
 
 Did his mother get well? Yes; and one 
 day when he went to walk with her, he told 
 her of his sweet experience of God's goodness 
 on his ride by Mells park. And was. she not 
 glad ? yes ; for happy indeed are those 
 parents whose children trust in the Lord, fear- 
 ing him and keeping his law.
 
 WHAT TO DO. 27 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 WHAT TO DO LEAVING HOME THE APPREN- 
 TICESHIP. 
 
 SAMUEL was now fourteen years old, and the 
 question had often been agitated in the family 
 councils, " what he was going to do." A more 
 serious question than this often comes up about 
 boys of this age, which occasions more perplex- 
 ity and many more anxious days to decide ; it 
 is this, " What is the boy going to be ?" That 
 is the greatest question, Wliat is he going to be ? 
 A weak, thriftless, irresponsible man ; or a 
 prompt, energetic, reliable one? An industri- 
 ous, painstaking, God-fearing man ; or an idle, 
 slovenly, irreligious one? A man worth some- 
 thing, or a man worth nothing ? A poet says, 
 " The boy is father of the man ;" which means, 
 that the germs of the future man are growing 
 in the boy. The seeds of future character are 
 no doubt there, and it is precisely this which 
 makes the tastes, tendencies, and habits of 
 boyhood a matter of such weighty concern to 
 parents. What the boy is going to do, is second
 
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 to what he is going to be; for what he does, will 
 very greatly depend upon what he is. 
 
 It is not so important what kind of business 
 a man engages in, provided it is an honest 
 one, as upon what principles it is' conducted 
 how much energy, prudence, foresight, and 
 prayer he throws into it. It is upon such foun- 
 dations that true success is built. It is such 
 elements which make business good good for 
 the master, good for his men, good for the com- 
 munity in which he lives. 
 
 By the time Samuel was fourteen, the ques- 
 tion what he was going to be, occasioned no 
 anxiety in the minds of his parents ; that was 
 pretty nearly decided, although every body, 
 perhaps, did not discern the real merits of the 
 little fellow. But what was he going to do ? 
 Samuel had a choice in the matter. He want- 
 ed to become a missionary, he longed to preach 
 the gospel. That was his strong desire, one 
 day to be a preacher. He was not, however, 
 too young to see there were many serious ob- 
 stacles in the way. He was poor, and poorly 
 educated even in the branches of a common 
 education ; then he doubted his capacity : he 
 hardly thought he had talent fit for such an
 
 WHAT TO DO. 29 
 
 office. Besides, his parents needed help, and 
 was it not his duty to qualify himself to assist 
 them as soon as possible? 
 
 Many days and nights he pondered this ques- 
 tion of duty. One day as he was riding along 
 on his father's horse thinking these matters 
 over, he fell^to musing, and imagined himself 
 transported to some foreign land as a mission- 
 ary, engaged in preaching the gospel to the 
 heathen ; and he almost fancied himself kneel- 
 ing under the bushes and among the rocks, 
 drawing down blessings by faith and prayer. 
 For a time he forgot where he was. And 
 when at last he awoke from his dream, he 
 found the bridle loose on the horse's neck, and 
 the horse standing under a large tree in a lane, 
 eating grass. It appeared to him that for 
 some time he had been surrounded by a great 
 congregation, whom he had been begging to 
 flee from the wrath to come, and who accepted 
 salvation through Jesus Christ. One thing 
 was certain, he had been weeping a great deal, 
 for the pommel of his saddle and the horse's 
 shoulders were wet with his tears ; and he rode 
 home with a sweet feeling of peace such as 
 could not be described.
 
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 Then the uppermost thought was to give up 
 all idea of trade, and devote himself to study 
 for the gospel ministry. 
 
 But a different path lay out before him. And 
 the final decision was, that he should go into 
 his brother Henry's store at Kingswood, and 
 serve with him a regular apprenticeship of 
 seven years. 
 
 Samuel had laid up at this time the sum of 
 thirty pounds, the fruit of his own earnings and 
 savings a handsome sum for a boy of his age 
 to be master of. Now, what do you suppose he 
 did with it? Invested in bank-stock at six 
 per cent., it would have been a nice little capi- 
 tal to have started business with at twenty- 
 one. He did invest it, but not in bank-stock. 
 On leaving home, he made a present of it to his 
 mother. And he always considered it the best 
 investment he ever made, for he says, " JVb in- 
 vestment under the sky is so sure as a parent's 
 blessing." 
 
 Let the boys think of that. It should be 
 written in letters of gold. "There is no in- 
 vestment under the sky so sure as a parent's 
 blessing." 
 
 With such a parting gift to his dear mother,
 
 LEAVING HOME. 31 
 
 Samuel started for Kingswood. His brother's 
 shop was a variety-store, containing almost 
 every thing which might be wanted in the 
 families of the colliers. It was called the 
 "great shop on the cassy." All around were 
 the rude and humble houses of the collier pop- 
 ulation. Some were thrifty and comfortable, 
 others poor and comfortless ; the people, as a 
 class, were ignorant and degraded ; there were 
 many circumstances which hindered their moral 
 and social improvement, and nourished the 
 worst passions of the human heart. Almost in 
 the immediate neighborhood were nests of rob- 
 bers, who prowled by night around the farms 
 and hamlets of the vicinity, and stole whatever 
 they could lay their hands on. Many a time, 
 when the farmers and constables were search- 
 ing their premises for stolen goods, the thieves 
 would show them their own pigs and poultry, 
 dead and picked, and defy them to prove their 
 property. 
 
 This was home heathenism. If Samuel there- 
 fore wanted opportunities to do missionary 
 work, Kingswood offered ample room for all 
 labors of the kind. Indeed, every young per- 
 son with a heart to do good, can find a great
 
 32 NO PAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 deal of good to do not very far from his own 
 door. 
 
 Samuel soon found his hands full of shop- 
 work, from morning till night, all the week. 
 By six in the morning he was expected to be on 
 duty, and often his labors were not closed until 
 ten or eleven at night. The work was very 
 hard ; there was a great deal of heavy lifting, 
 and many errands to be done in Bristol, requir- 
 ing a swift foot. It was work, work, work, 
 with hardly interval enough for rest, or any 
 leisure to improve his mind by reading, except 
 on Sunday, and Sunday was a welcome and 
 precious day to poor Samuel. Its sacred hours 
 he highly prized ; its opportunities for improve- 
 ment he diligently cultivated. 
 
 There was a little chapel close by his broth- 
 er's, where the family worshipped ; and there 
 Samuel used to go every Sabbath morning, eager 
 to hear the preaching, and delighted to engage 
 in the devotions of the people of God. The 
 sermons were a great treat to him, and lest he 
 should forget any thing by the way, or have his 
 mind diverted from the truth by hearing foolish 
 or unprofitable talk, he often stopped his ears 
 on his way home. In pleasant weather he
 
 THE APPRENTICESHIP. 33 
 
 would betake himself to the solitude of an old 
 quarry behind the house, and there, seated upon 
 a piece of slag, would review the sermon, study 
 his Bible, and learn sacred poetry, striving to 
 store up treasures of divine truth to feed his 
 soul upon during the week. No gains without 
 pains, Samuel felt, in heavenly as well as in 
 earthly gettings. 
 
 I am sure Samuel must have been a good 
 boy faithful and diligent you are ready to 
 believe. But for some cause or other he failed 
 to satisfy his brother ; and his brother, after 
 two or three years' trial, gave him notice to 
 quit, allowing him a month to look out for 
 another situation. It was a heavy blow to the 
 poor boy. What could he do ? If his brother 
 turned him away, what reasonable expectation 
 was there of his getting another place? He 
 however heard of a vacancy in a store in Bris- 
 tol, and resolved to apply for it without delay. 
 When he reached the door, his heart failed 
 him, for he knew his size and appearance and 
 clothes were all against him. Samuel was 
 small of his age, and not very stout. Plucking 
 up courage, he ventured in, and offered his ser- 
 vices. 
 
 No Paioi. 3
 
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 " I ain afraid you are not strong enough for 
 my situation," said the shop-keeper. 
 
 " do try me, sir ; I am sure I can do," said 
 the boy. 
 
 "Can you write your address?" asked Mr. 
 
 Samuel was not quite sure what "address" 
 meant, but -he said, "I can write an invoice, 
 sir." Do the boys who read this know what 
 "invoice" means? 
 
 "Very well," said the shop-keeper, "write 
 eighty-six pounds of bacon, at nine and a half 
 pence per pound." 
 
 Samuel wrote it, but the reckoning was 
 wrong. He tried a second time, and failed. 
 How badly he felt. Just then a young man, 
 tall and well-dressed, entered the shop on the 
 same errand for which Samuel was on trial. 
 What hope was there for him? The shop- 
 keeper's wife, however, was pleased with the 
 boy's looks, and she urged a word in his favor. 
 
 "He is not strong enough," said the shop- 
 keeper ; "he could never carry those heavy 
 cheeses." 
 
 '' Do try me, sir," pleaded Samuel ; "I am sure 
 I can do it." And instantly going to work
 
 THE APPRENTICESHIP. 35 
 
 among the cheeses, he showed so much spirit 
 that the man concluded to take him. 
 
 He was dismissed from his brother's store on 
 the score of " want of ability," as was found re- 
 corded on Henry's books. The result will show 
 that masters may be mistaken in the capacities 
 of their apprentices, and that boys, even if they 
 do their best, need not be discouraged if they 
 fail to suit their first employers. 
 
 Before going to Bristol, he determined to pay 
 his parents a visit at Coleford, and a younger 
 brother, who was an apprentice in Bristol, got 
 leave to go with him. Leaving Kingswood 
 tinder such circumstances, was a sore trial to 
 poor Samuel. He felt it something in the light 
 of a disgrace. Before leaving, he asked his 
 brother for a character, for I suppose he was 
 conscious of having done as well as he could. 
 Henry gave him one. At first he was afraid to 
 open the paper and look at it, but turning into 
 a little gate by the roadside to hide his agita- 
 tion, he ventured to peep in, and was greatly 
 relieved to find his want of strength given as 
 a reason for his dismissal. 
 
 The boys started on their journey on foot. 
 And how do you suppose they employed their
 
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 time? The younger brother had been at better 
 schools, and his stock of learning, small as it 
 probably was, was superior to Samuel's. Sam- 
 uel therefore determined to take advantage 
 of his brother's knowledge ; and as they trav- 
 elled, they practised addition, multiplication, and 
 division on all the bacon, butter, cheese, and 
 chickens they could think of. Samuel was anx- 
 ious to become a ready and accurate reckoner, 
 and a persevering use of even his slender ad- 
 vantages he well knew would increase his skill. 
 " No gains without pains," was bis maxim. 
 
 The boys were so much interested in their 
 arithmetic, that they lost their reckoning of the 
 road. Night overtook them far from Coleford, 
 but near the friendly warmth of a coke-kiln ; 
 and tired enough, they concluded to lie down 
 and pass the night by the fire. Early the next 
 morning, a cartman passing that way, offered 
 the boys a ride, which they were very thankful 
 to accept, for the ride carried them home in 
 good season for breakfast. 
 
 A family meeting as happy as unexpected, it 
 no doubt was. The boys had much to tell, their 
 parents much to hear, and the little children 
 mafiy questions to ask. If Samuel's pleasure
 
 THE APPRENTICESHIP. 37 
 
 was at all damped, and I suppose it was by 
 his brother's course, it received a farther check 
 by the signs of hard times which he saw at 
 home. His father, some years older than his 
 mother, was well along in life, and perhaps 
 could do little for the family maintenance. 
 Poverty sometimes pinched. He was afraid 
 that the struggle must sometimes be severe, 
 and he felt deeply for his mother, whose cares 
 and labors were outrunning her strength. How 
 he longed to be in a situation to help her ; how 
 he longed to lift from her the load of care, and 
 place her in ease and comfort. Samuel's cour- 
 age revived. He was determined to do his 
 best. He would, God willing, be something. 
 His resolution took a fresh start. His affec- 
 tions fired up all the energy of his character, 
 and after a few days' visit, he left Coleford to 
 try his fortune in Bristol. 
 
 On the journey back, he met a man with a 
 jay to sell. The pretty bird attracted his notice, 
 and he bought it for six cents. Having a few 
 hours to spare after reaching Bristol, he took 
 his stand on the bridge where there were many 
 passers-by, and offered his jay for sale. Nobody 
 seemed disposed to buy. The day was wearing
 
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 away, and the bird unsold. He then left his 
 stand, and offered it from house to house ; this 
 succeeded, and he sold it at a profit of eighteen 
 cents. " No gains without pains," Samuel 
 thought. 
 
 The next morning he went to his new mas- 
 ter. Both the man and his wife received him 
 kindly. They soon discovered his worth, and 
 prized his services. Samuel was greatly en- 
 couraged, and very happy was he with these 
 good people. While in his brother's employ- 
 ment, he had no opportunity of earning any 
 thing extra for himself. But by some means or 
 other, we find him at this time the possessor of 
 fifteen shillings, which is nearly four dollars of 
 our money. You remember how he invested 
 his thirty pounds. Perhaps you would like 
 also to know how he disposed of this. 
 
 Two of his sisters came to live in Bristol ; 
 they were trying to maintain themselves, per- 
 haps by sewing, and Samuel, of course, was 
 desirous to lend them a helping hand. One 
 day he went to a coal-pit, and laid out all his 
 money in coal, to be carted to his sisters' lodg- 
 ings. So ready was he to answer the calls of 
 family affection.
 
 THE APPEENTICESHIP. 39 
 
 In Mr. Arthur's life of Samuel Budgett there 
 are some remarks upon earning and giving 
 money, which I want every one who reads this 
 to have the benefit of. Rev. Mr. Arthur is an 
 English gentleman, who wrote a large and in- 
 teresting book called "The Successful Mer- 
 chant," which I hope you will get and read. 
 He says John Wesley, in a powerful sermon 
 on the use of money, lays down these three 
 rules : " Make all you can ; save all you can ; 
 give all you can." Both from natural disposi- 
 tion and early habit, Samuel seemed when a 
 boy to understand and act upon these princi- 
 ples, whether he had then ever heard the ser- 
 mon or not. To make, to save, to give, he set 
 himself. To make without saving, is useless 
 and absurd ; to save without giving, is miserly ; 
 to make and then save, is wise ; to save and 
 then give, is Christian. 
 
 Which did Samuel do? I want you to stop 
 and think about his course, because it is worth 
 remembering. If you ever do business, it is 
 very important to have some definite notions, 
 some clear Christian principles, in regard to 
 the value and the use of money. 
 
 He had not been long away from Kingswood
 
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 before Henry Budgett was sensible what a loss 
 he had met with, and what a mistake he had 
 made, in parting with his brother. He bitterly 
 regretted it, for nobody could supply his place, 
 and he was bent upon having him back. Very 
 
 naturally Mr. B was loath to give Samuel 
 
 up, for a better clerk, of his age, he had never 
 had in his employment. Indeed, he could not 
 think of parting with him, and was willing to 
 give him high wages to stay. Very naturally 
 Samuel was loath to leave. He was thoroughly 
 appreciated, had received great kindness, and 
 was very happy in his Bristol home. 
 
 But Henry urged that it was his duty to 
 serve out his apprenticeship, according to the 
 old agreement; and Samuel, always tender 
 and scrupulous on every point of duty and con- 
 science, yielded at last to this argument if 
 sound argument it was, for his dismissal would 
 seem to relieve him from any thing like moral 
 obligation to return. In doing so, he gave up 
 a good salary for a bare support until the close 
 of his legal stay, at twenty-one. 
 
 Samuel then went back to the old shop in 
 Kingswood, for which perhaps he felt a linger- 
 ing affection ; for his parents first opened it, and
 
 THE APPRENTICESHIP. 41 
 
 there he spent some of the most interesting 
 days of his childhood. He was now about 
 eighteen. If his brother was glad of his return, 
 the customers certainly were also : he was so 
 obliging, so attentive, so anxious to do the best 
 for you ; there was so much heart in every 
 thing he did. The old market-women rather 
 wait a long time in order to be served by him ; 
 indeed, they thought he gave better weight and 
 measure than any body else. The people all 
 around loved him as a son and brother. Many 
 a choice apple and bunch of gooseberries from 
 nice little gardens were brought to him. And 
 very grateful was he for these little gifts, but 
 he never ate them : they were delicacies which 
 he denied himself, and hoarded up to take over 
 to a poor old pious aunt living in Bristol ; so 
 thoughtful and interested was he in the smallest 
 things which could administer to the comfort 
 and gratification of others. 
 
 Whatever Samuel did, he did with his might. 
 All the minute details of business he carefully 
 and faithfully attended to. No slipshod, half- 
 way work ever came from his hands. He 
 always used to say, in whatever calling a Chris* 
 tian is found, he should strive to be the best in
 
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 his calling : if only a shoeblack, he ought to 
 be the best shoeblack in the neighborhood. 
 
 The apostle sums up this principle in a short 
 verse, which is of amazing value ; it is this, 
 " Whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as unto the 
 Lord." These few words are charged with a 
 great deal of hidden power. 
 
 You know how much more circumspectly 
 children behave, and how much more faithfully 
 they do their work, if they know their parents 
 are looking on. What energy a boy often 
 throws into his studies, if he feels that the 
 teacher's eye is fixed upon him. And so, with 
 what diligence, what fidelity, what painstaking 
 are those likely to enter upon their work who 
 truly feel that God gave it to them to do, and 
 that he is constantly minding just how they 
 do it. 
 
 On Samuel's return to Kingswood, his mis- 
 sionary zeal found an outlet, and we are thank- 
 ful to follow him into more direct efforts to do 
 good in the neighborhoods around him. I told 
 you about a nest of thieves not very far from 
 Henry Budgett's ; they lived at a place called 
 Cockroad, arid were called Cockroadites, the 
 terror and dislike of all decent people. And
 
 THE APPRENTICESHIP. 43 
 
 their scores of children were growing up in all 
 the vices of their parents, like the very hea- 
 then. Could any thing be done in their be- 
 half? What could be done ? These were pretty 
 serious questions agitated by the pious people 
 of Kingswood. Ought they to be longer neg- 
 lected? "No, they ought not," said Henry 
 Budgett; "we must make efforts to reclaim 
 them ; we must give them the gospel." It was 
 proposed to establish a Sabbath-school on the 
 spot, and Samuel entered into the plan with 
 all the earnestness of his character. We can 
 readily suppose no person was better suited to 
 visit the parents, and conciliate their good-will, 
 than he. The school was opened in July, 1812 ; 
 and to their surprise, on the first day seventy- 
 five children made their appearance, fifty-eight 
 of whom did not know their alphabet. Was 
 not the effort worth making? 
 
 ." Many of them," says one of the teachers, 
 " are children of the notorious tribe of Cock- 
 roadites, some of whose fathers are now in 
 prison ; and many of them, with their parents, 
 are entirely dependent on a system of robbing 
 and plunder for their support." 
 
 Here then was a field of Christian usefulness
 
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 demanding patience and prayer, and a true love 
 of souls for Christ's sake. Of children Samuel 
 was very fond. His kind and genial manners 
 won their affections. He entered into their 
 circle of sympathies and interests. He made 
 them his study. He understood how to talk 
 with .them, and was always on the watch for 
 suitable anecdotes and stories to illustrate and 
 impress the truth. His power over them be- 
 came very great ; and few people could inter- 
 est audiences of children, hold their attention, 
 and touch their consciences, like Mr. Samuel 
 Budgett. For you remember he acted upon the 
 principle, that every thing worth doing, was 
 worth doing in the best way possible; and 
 although he had had small advantages for edu- 
 cation and mental improvement, he became an 
 excellent, devoted, and successful Sabbath-school 
 teacher one of the best sort. " No gains with- 
 out pains." No excellence without effort. ' 9 
 
 Few young men, perhaps, realized more the 
 value of time, and consequently few made a 
 better use of it. How did he learn its value? 
 I will tell you the principle upon which this 
 valuation was made ; it is an important one. 
 
 " You think/ 7 he wrote to a friend, " that if
 
 THE APPRENTICESHIP. 45 
 
 you were obliged to labor from morning till 
 night, this would teach you the value of time. 
 Is not this a mistake? Can any thing so effec- 
 tually teach us its value as a deep conviction 
 that it is not our own, but an important talent 
 put into our hands, for which we must give a 
 strict account at the great, the general audit of 
 all our accounts with our Maker? If so, of 
 how little importance is it to us what may be 
 the nature or number of our engagements, so 
 long as we may secure at last the blessed plau- 
 dit of 'well done' from Him whose approba- 
 tion alone it is that gives real value to every 
 thing in heaven or earth." 
 
 Here is a letter, written towards the close of 
 his apprenticeship, which will help to disclose 
 more of his character. 
 
 " KINGSWOOD HILL, Angnst 29. 
 
 " MY VERY DEAR FRIEND Your affectionate 
 letter I received last week. After I had dis- 
 missed the business of the day, I retired to my 
 room, sat down, and began to think How long 
 is it since I received Mr. M 'a book of ex- 
 tracts? How long since he asked me to send 
 him a plan for keeping a commonplace-book? 
 Turning to my little library, Why did I place
 
 46 NO PAINS. NO GAINS. 
 
 so many books on those shelves ? I asked. The 
 feelings of my mind on that occasion I cannot 
 describe to you ; I believe it was something like 
 one awaking from a dream who ought to have 
 been on an important journey some hours be- 
 fore. I saw that all my powers had been in a 
 state of dormancy. I began to reflect on your 
 past kindness, and considered that I had not 
 even read all your book, though I intended copy- 
 ing a great deal of it. How plainly did I see, 
 and to my sorrow feel the truth of your obser- 
 vation, that the mind once enlightened and hav- 
 ing lost the love of God, is in a more inactive 
 state than ever. I saw that my mind had been 
 swallowed up in business, to the great neglect 
 of my spiritual and mental concerns. I con- 
 sidered that I had been but little different for 
 seven years ; and from your letter, I thought 
 you appeared to be sinking into the same state. 
 After passing some time for I took no sup- 
 per that night, but stayed in my room reason- 
 ing and endeavoring to think on what had pass- 
 ed till bedtime I thought, What a deplorable 
 state we are in. What can be done ? And I 
 determined to do something. I took up my 
 pen, and wrote down a few little things that I
 
 THE APPRENTICESHIP. 47 
 
 had neglected, and resolved to execute them in 
 order, and as fast as possible, praying for the 
 blessing of God on my weak endeavors. 
 
 " Join with me, my dear friend, join with me 
 in praying that the Lord may add his blessing 
 to my resolutions, and I believe we shall soon 
 see better days. Let us look to that God who 
 has promised, 'I will instruct thee, and teach 
 thee in the way which thou shalt go ; I will 
 guide thee with mine eye.' .'I am the light of 
 the world ; he that followeth me shall not walk 
 in darkness, but shall have the light of life.' 
 Surely we err in not following him more closely ; 
 perhaps we have not thought highly enough of 
 our calling. Let us begin to double our diligence, 
 and henceforth walk as children of the light. 
 
 " Inclosed you have a small book with the in- 
 dex to Locke's commonplace-book ruled in it, 
 of which I must beg your acceptance as a small 
 token of my love and affection for you. I have 
 not written a list of my books yet, but hope to 
 do so, and will send it to you in my next. 
 
 " As it respects my coming to Frome, I thank 
 you for your kind invitation. I have intended 
 going, but I assure you, when it comes to the 
 point, I have no inclination to go anywhere ;
 
 48 *fO PAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 for if I cannot find happiness at home, it is in 
 vain to seek it anywhere else. I think, if I 
 were to come with the determination to enjoy 
 the company of my friends by going to any 
 places of recreation or amusement, though I am 
 very fond of such kind of enjoyments, particu- 
 larly where religion and real happiness is the 
 subject of conversation, yet it may tend rather 
 to divert my mind from God as the source of 
 my happiness, than unite it to him. But for 
 one thing I have long felt an earnest, though 
 secret desire ; which is, to spend a little time 
 
 with you and Mr. T alone, where no object 
 
 but God could attract our attention ; that we 
 may, by devout conversation, by humble, fer- 
 vent, faithful prayer, get our souls united to 
 each other, and to God our living head, by the 
 strongest ties of love and affection. 
 
 "Pray for me, my dear friend. I have only 
 one more request to make ; that is, that you 
 will write soon, and believe me your affection- 
 ate friend, 
 
 S. B." 
 
 This letter is worth many readings. How 
 many young men, young men professing piety, 
 find their own feelings answer to its sentiments?
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 49 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 
 
 WHEN Samuel completed his apprenticeship, 
 and was free, his brother hired him for three 
 years, on a salary of forty pounds for the first 
 year, fifty for the next, and sixty for the third. 
 At the end of the three years, he had saved 
 from this, one hundred pounds, or five hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 What did he do with it? The investment 
 which he made of his thirty pounds, and of his 
 fifteen shillings, you readily remember. They 
 were put in the bank of family affection. And 
 this went the same way. His brother Henry 
 had engaged in a banking speculation, which 
 proved to be a failure. His credit and prop- 
 erty were in danger. Samuel went to him and 
 begged him to accept his one hundred pounds ; 
 which he did, and which relieved him of his 
 difficulties. The young man's care and love 
 for his family were very great ; doing for them, 
 was like doing for himself.
 
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 At the close of the three years, Henry took 
 him into partnership, and this opened a wider 
 scope to his powers. Already the business had 
 thriven through his insight and energy ; and 
 more immediately under his control, it was des- 
 tined to increase more and more. It was one 
 of his favorite maxims, that "business is what 
 it is made to be ;" good, bad, indifferent, hon- 
 est, or dishonest -just what it is made to be by 
 the master-mind which conducts it. 
 
 The first great principle on which business 
 was conducted by the Budgetts was cash pay- 
 ments. Do you know what that is? Goods 
 were not bought or sold on credit. Articles 
 were not charged on the books, to be paid for at 
 some future time often very future. They were 
 paid for at the time of buying, in cash, or at 
 least at a given time not many weeks or days 
 off. In this way they avoided many ''bad 
 debts ;" that is, losses from customers who, 
 after three, or four, or six mouths, might find 
 themselves in no situation to pay at all. The 
 consequence of this system is, that merchants 
 and traders know, with some degree of cer- 
 tainty, just where they are, in almost every 
 stage of their business.
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 51 
 
 The store began small, and gradually en- 
 larged. When Samuel first entered it, it was 
 only a small retail shop. A great many of the 
 customers were women, who came from the 
 neighboring Tillages on donkeys ; and often- 
 times a great crowd of donkeys testified how 
 many customers there were on hand, making a 
 smart day's business behind the counters. Sam- 
 uel thought, why not go around into the villa- 
 ges, and get the orders of their customci'S ; it 
 would save them trouble, it would secure their 
 custom, and it would open ways to extend 
 business. When Samuel joined the firm, he 
 proposed this. Henry objected ; he liked the 
 old way of doing things. Samuel, however, pre- 
 vailed over him, and gained his point ; and soon 
 he might have been seen setting off alone at 
 stated times, going the rounds of the little vil- 
 lages in the vicinity, Pucklechurch and Doyn- 
 ton, and I do not know how many others, to 
 meet his customers and get their orders for 
 goods ; his kind cheerful manners won upon 
 every body who saw him, and he made friends 
 wherever he went. From supplying families, 
 he soon talked of supplying goods to the small- 
 er shops. "It would be a great benefit to
 
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 us," said the small shop-keepers. But Henry 
 interfered. " Don't let us think of going into 
 the wholesale trade," he said ; ' let us stick to 
 the old course." 
 
 " We can but try a little extension in a small 
 way," urged Samuel ; " there is no risk." Henry 
 was again obliged to give way, for there was 
 no resisting a mind so ardent and resolute as 
 Samuel's. And before long, the Budgctts sup- 
 plied groceries to a large number of little shops 
 dotting the country round ; for England, you 
 know, is more thickly settled than this country 
 is, and there was a large population in and 
 around Bristol. 
 
 An opportunity soon opened for further ex- 
 tension. And it is the work of a sagacious 
 mind to perceive these opportunities when they 
 occur, and to take advantage of them. It is 
 this which promises success to the merchant. 
 
 The firm bought a large quantity of butter 
 very cheap ; in a few days, a rise in the price of 
 butter took place in the market. *' I will take 
 this occasion," said Samuel, " to visit some of 
 the large stores and offer to trade, for in this 
 case it will evidently be for their advantage to 
 buy." With him to purpose was to act, and
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 53 
 
 therefore he undertook a journey into some of 
 the large towns ; but when it came to the point, 
 he felt a little hesitation about facing men more 
 largely engaged in trade. He however soon 
 dashed that away ; but he encountered, as he 
 feared, many rudenesses and rebuffs. " Where 
 are you from ?" asked a man, in reply to his 
 offers of the butter. "Kings wood," answered 
 Samuel. " Kingswood !" cried the man scorn- 
 fully ; " you had better go back to Kingswood 
 and mind your shop, and not try to sell us goods 
 at Frome." Kingswood, you know, had a poor 
 reputation, and people were slow to believe 
 any good thing could come out of Kingswood. 
 These rebuffs did not discourage the young 
 man not they. Besides, he succeeded in get- 
 ting a few orders for his butter, for there were 
 sensible men found who were willing to lay 
 aside their pride, and candidly to acknowledge 
 it was for their advantage to buy even from 
 a shop at Kingswood. In a month he went 
 around again, visited the same stores, met with 
 pretty much the same sort of treatment, served 
 faithfully his few customers, and perhaps got 
 one or two more. Little by little he gained 
 upon the prejudices of the people. Nothing
 
 54 NO PAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 damped him. "Try, try again," was his motto. 
 "No gains without pains." 
 
 Never a single customer was neglected. The 
 humblest was served with the same promptness 
 and attention as the largest. With such reso- 
 lution and energy, no wonder that business 
 grew surprisingly, and that the foundation of a 
 wholesale trade was laid on a firm footing. 
 People began to stare, and look astonished. 
 "What are the Budgetts about?" they said; 
 and what was still more remarkable, they 
 thought every body that dealt with them seem- 
 ed to thrive also, for I suppose the firm 
 breathed its own energy into every body that 
 came in contact with it. That is the great 
 advantage of being connected with men of 
 thorough business habits ; you get their habits. 
 Of Samuel's perseverance you have had good 
 proof; now let us glance at his notions of 
 
 HONESTY. 
 
 At the time he began business, pepper in 
 England lay under a heavy tax. In conse- 
 quence of it, pepper was commonly adulter- 
 ated ; in almost every grocery store there 
 might be seen a cask labelled P. D., (pepper 
 dust,) filled with dust resembling pepper, with
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 55 
 
 which real pepper was mixed before it was 
 sold ; of course, a very much adulterated arti- 
 cle. It had grown into a custom of the trade, 
 and men regarded honest did it without stop- 
 ping to think, or to question the principle 
 which it involved. 
 
 A cask with P. D. marked on it was also 
 found in Henry Budgett's store. As soon as 
 Samuel had a responsibility in the store, his 
 conscience began to grumble. That "every 
 body did so/" was an argument of no weight 
 with him. If every body did wrong, it became 
 him, then, to do right. It was " only a trick 
 of the trade." But he did not believe in a trade 
 that had tricks, or that could stoop to tricks, in 
 order to live. The more he thought of it, the 
 more he hated the sight of that ugly cask. It 
 was neither more or less than a hypocrite, and 
 he liked genuine things, goods or men. Besides, 
 he was very sure he could not dare ask the bless- 
 ing of God upon the use it was put to, and this 
 decided him. He resolved instantly to act. It 
 was night. He went into the store, rolled out 
 the cask down to the old quarry where he used, 
 when a boy, to pass a portion of his Sabbaths, 
 and there he stove it in, and scattered the
 
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 P. D. to the four winds. His conscience was 
 clear. After he got home and was in bed, he 
 remembered the staves ; there was no need of 
 wasting them, he thought ; and the first thing 
 the next morning he went to the quarry, gath- 
 ered them up, and put them aside for a better 
 use. 
 
 This is what Christian principle docs. It is 
 often said, there is more or less deception in 
 trade, and that few articles are genuine where 
 there can be clever cheating. We should be 
 very sorry to believe this, or to suppose that 
 success in business must in any way depend 
 upon deception ; or that the many Christian 
 men engaged in trade would for one moment 
 lend themselves to underhand dealings, or to 
 any practices that would shun the daylight of 
 common honesty. 
 
 On another occasion, a man professing to be 
 a Christian came to Samuel one day, offering 
 to tell him a secret which would put him in the 
 way of making a good deal of money. Upon 
 what conditions the secret was disclosed, I do 
 not know ; but it proved to be a receipt for 
 making sham vinegar at a very slight cost. 
 
 " What," cried Samuel Budget, when he fairly
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 57 
 
 found out what it was, " do you want to lead me 
 into a dealing like this? If you are resolved 
 to go to hell yourself, why should you try to 
 drag me with you ?" I 
 
 The man found himself at the wrong coun- , 
 ter to peddle sham wares. And the young 
 merchant's honest indignation he did not prob- 
 ably soon forget. Indeed, he believed there 
 was a right way to do almost every thing. 
 
 See what principle he infused into, and what 
 a value ho put upon a virtue too much neg- 
 lected, if not quite despised, in these days, 
 but a virtue of great price, the virtue of 
 ECONOMY. 
 
 Passing through a chamber in one of his 
 warehouses one day, where a new hand was at 
 work cutting out paper bags to be used in the 
 shop, he immediately saw that the boy did not 
 do his work in the best manner, for he wasted 
 both time and paper. He stopped and kindly 
 showed the lad how how to improve how to 
 make paper bags right, cutting out several bags 
 himself, and pointing out the economy to be 
 used in the use of the material, for even paper 
 was not to be wasted. 
 
 " Of course," he said to the youth, " it would
 
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 be wronging me for you to continue to make the 
 bags your way, and I suppose you would not 
 wish to injure your employer, even in so small 
 a thing as this. But think for a moment of 
 the injury you would be doing to yourself if, 
 when you have a business of your own, you 
 have not learned how to manage it with econ- 
 omy ; and you must take your first lessons in 
 economy in things of this kind." 
 
 Even an old nail had its value. Two or three 
 boys were kept in the establishment, after it 
 became large, whose sole business was to pick 
 up and hammer out old nails. This was the 
 first thing a boy was set to do. If he ham- 
 mered out old nails well, he was put to mend 
 bags under the master bag-mender ; this was his 
 first step in promotion : if he mended bags well, 
 he was promoted to be a messenger ; and so he 
 rises from step to step, according to his ability 
 and industry. But the foundation of promotion 
 and success is laid in doing the best you can at 
 the anvil, or on the old bags. 
 
 Little things were never for one moment to 
 be neglected because they were little. Boys, 
 as clerks or in work-shops, often grumble at 
 the small and insignificant things which they at
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 59 
 
 first are often employed about. They do not 
 know that these are tests of their ability and 
 disposition to work. They do not know how 
 much depends upon doing these well taking 
 pains to do them well. And many a boy has 
 left a good place from a false notion that he 
 was not doing much, because his tasks were 
 humble ; forgetting that fidelity to these Avas the 
 only sure stepping-stone to higher duties. Let 
 boys try always to remember that little habits, 
 like all little things, more than make up by 
 their number what they seem to lack in individ- 
 ual importance. They are the true seeds of 
 character. We might as well plant acorns and 
 not expect them to grow, as cherish small vices 
 and bad habits, and not expect them to increase ; 
 or as reasonably expect to see the fine and no- 
 ble oak where no acorns were planted, as true 
 greatness and success in life where the seed- 
 lings of a thousand habits of industry and vir- 
 tue had not been first carefully cultivated. 
 
 PUNCTUALITY was another of these little 
 habits to which Samuel Budgett attached great 
 importance in all the great and small affairs of 
 life. And punctual himself, he took pains to 
 make his clerks and workmen so. As business
 
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 increased, a largo number of persons were em- 
 ployed. " When I first knew the business," said 
 an old man, "it had only five men and three 
 horses ; now, three hundred men and one hun- 
 dred horses are no more than enough." And 
 all these he was anxious to educate into that 
 measure of promptness and efficiency which 
 would make their services of value. Ilis own 
 example must have been, powerful. But I 
 suppose he found something more was neces- 
 sary to stimulate dull minds and quicken lag- 
 ging feet, and he accordingly adopted a plan, 
 which Mr. Arthur thus describes. "At six 
 o'clock work began. By the side of the gate 
 which admitted the men into the wide enclo- 
 sure where business was transacted, hung a 
 black-board divided into squares ; each square 
 was numbered and contained a nail, and on 
 this nail hung a little copper plate. Each man 
 had his number, and as he went out for the 
 night, he took his plate with him, leaving of 
 course his number exposed on the board. As he 
 entered he hung the plate on his nail, so covering 
 his number. The moment the bell ceased ring- 
 ing for there was a bell for business hours 
 the board was taken down, and all whose num-
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 61 
 
 bers were not covered were marked defaulters. 
 Those whose names were not found on the list 
 of defaulters at the end of the year, were hand- 
 somely rewarded." The men liked it ; it braced 
 them up, and although many came three or four 
 miles, they made it a point to be in season. 
 
 Mr. Budgett never allowed himself to be a 
 minute late in keeping his engagements ; he felt 
 he had no right to steal others' time: and if 
 any thing providentially did hinder him on the 
 way, lie made sincere apologies, even to a child. 
 
 "With all this punctuality came DISPATCH. 
 During the busy season, after their business 
 had greatly increased, the men were often kept 
 at work until ten or eleven o'clock at night. 
 This greatly troubled Mr. Samuel Budgett ; he 
 could not bear to have it so. 
 
 "The men ought to be at home with their 
 families," he would say ; " they ought not to be 
 here." By rearranging matters, the bell to 
 leave off work was rung at half past eight. But 
 this did not long satisfy him. " I do not like to 
 see you here," he would say ; " you must be at 
 home evenings ; you must have time for read- 
 ing ; you must have opportunity to take care of 
 your souls ; we must get done sooner here."
 
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 He then fixed upon seven o'clock to leave : 
 that, people said, was impossible ; business could 
 not be finished. But that which was best and 
 right to do, Mr. Budgett thought could be done. 
 He did not stick at small difficulties, or create 
 impossibilities out of mere difficulties. He 
 meant to do right by his men, whether or no. 
 He finally pitched upon six o'clock as the reg- 
 ular hour to quit work. And such was the 
 energy, method, and dispatch infused into every 
 department of labor throughout this great ware- 
 house, one hundred and eighty feet long, by 
 three hundred and fifty feet at its greatest 
 depth, that six o'clock found the clerks, sales- 
 men, porters, wagoners, coopers, and I do not 
 know how many others, with their day's work 
 done, and well done. As you pass from loft to 
 loft, office to office, yard to yard, visit the sta- 
 bles where forty or fifty horses are stabled, the 
 carpenter's shop, the cooper's shop, you perhaps 
 wonder how they ever get through. What mul- 
 titudes of cheeses ; how many tierces of sugar ; 
 then the bags of coffee, heaps of canary-seed, 
 chests of tea, flour-barrels and flour-bags, rai- 
 sins, etc. The Budgetts were "general pro- 
 duce merchants," and you can guess the variety
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 63 
 
 and the quantity of things housed under their 
 ample roof. 
 
 " But are not the men hurried and flurried ?" 
 Nothing was more remarkable about this gigan- 
 tic hive, than the "marvellous order" which 
 everywhere prevailed. There was no confu- 
 sion, no clashing. And it was very evident 
 that every body, from the boy who was picking 
 up crooked nails to the soberest clerk at his 
 desk, felt each that he had a responsible work 
 to do ; and that it was his interest and happi- 
 ness, no less than his duty, to do it well. 
 
 Well-doing had its reward. Mr. Budgett 
 knew the characters of the men in his employ- 
 ment. He made their characteristics and hab- 
 its a study. He sympathized with them, invit- 
 ed their confidence, counselled them, visited 
 their families, and showed them that he was 
 not only or merely the head of affairs, but their 
 friend, and their best interests he wished to 
 further as well as his own. 
 
 One of his men said he would get twice as 
 much out of them as any other master. How ; 
 by overworking them? We have seen that 
 was not the way, but by teaching them how to 
 work skilfully ; by an honest sympathy with,
 
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 and a hearty appreciation of tlieir labors, and 
 by rewarding them according to their diligence 
 and improvement. 
 
 " Remember the gothic door," was sometimes 
 whispered into the ear of an idler if idlers 
 were indeed allowed a place there, which may 
 be doubted at any rate, into the ear of any 
 ehowing a disposition to shirk or lag. 
 
 "Remember the gothic door." What did 
 this mean ? The gate, I suppose, through which 
 the men passed out at night, was of a gothic 
 form; for here Mr. Budgett was often found 
 standing on Friday night, his pocket looking 
 very portly, and a basket in hand filled with 
 small packages. As the men passed him, he 
 gave a parcel to one and to another, which on 
 being opened when they got home, were found 
 to contain five shillings, or three shillings, or a 
 crown, or half a crown, or something to show 
 his estimate of their industry and faithfulness. 
 Nor were the boys forgotten. They also re- 
 ceived their pennies, as few or many as their 
 diligence deserved ; for the deserving were 
 never overlooked. 
 
 " He never had a good year, but I was the 
 better for it when stock-taking came," said one.
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 65 
 
 " At stock-taking he has sometimes given me 
 a hundred pounds," said another who had been 
 long in his service, after relating the pains Mr. 
 Budgett had taken to make him what he was. 
 
 " He was a man as had no pleasure in muckin 
 up money," adds another. " Why, he would 
 often in that way give, aye, I believe, twenty 
 pounds on a Friday night well, at any rate, 
 fifteen." 
 
 To his clerks and other men in the employ- 
 ment, he would often reply, " My business? It 
 is not my business, but ours" He wanted every 
 body to feel a joint interest in the concern, an 
 affectionate participation in all its fortunes. 
 
 After stock-taking, which began at twelve 
 o'clock on a certain day, and was all finished 
 up long before twelve at night, a supper was 
 usually given to the men, besides on other oc- 
 casions when they were gathered together for 
 social enjoyment and recreation. Here is a 
 short notice of one of these occasions, taken 
 from a Bristol paper, which will give you some 
 idea of what they were. You will see it was 
 after Mr. Budgett had been long in business, 
 and after his store had been removed from 
 Kingswood to Bristol, the occasion of which I
 
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 shall relate to you. His home always remained 
 at Kingswood. 
 
 " On Friday last," says the newspaper, " the 
 neighborhood of Nelson-street was enlivened 
 by a gay and busy movement in the establish- 
 ment of Messrs. Budgett. The annual festival 
 given to their men was on this occasion pro- 
 vided" for them at the country residence of one 
 of the partners, Samuel Budgett, Esq., of Kings- 
 wood Hill. Coaches, omnibuses, and carriages 
 of nearly every description, were put in requi- 
 sition to carry the inmates of this hive of in- 
 dustry to the spot. Ample preparation was 
 there found for the recreation both of the body 
 and the mind. At two o'clock, about two 
 hundred of their business staff sat down to a 
 sumptuous dinner in the open air on the lawn 
 near the house, where the ' good cheer ' found a 
 cordial welcome and a hearty dispatch. This 
 being ended, the party was soon joined by their 
 wives and friends, to spend with each other the 
 remainder of the day. There were athletic exer- 
 cises, games, and a band of music. The pleas- 
 ure-grounds, fruit-garden, and shrubberies were 
 all thrown open to the company, and never was 
 there a scene of greater enjoyment and social
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 67 
 
 union. In the evening were three or four hun- 
 dred assembled for tea under a large covered 
 building, after which some animated speeches 
 were delivered by the gentlemen present, among 
 whom were the clergy and ministers of each 
 denomination in the village. 
 
 "The day closed only too quickly, and we 
 cannot do better than recommend a similar 
 experiment to all who wish to cherish in their 
 business one common feeling of interest, which 
 ought always to exist between employers and 
 the employed." 
 
 Among the evergreens used to decorate these 
 occasions, we pick out some capital mottoes. 
 Let us keep a few of them. "Perseverance 
 surmounts difficulties.'"'' "May poverty be al- 
 ways a day's march behind us." " The blessing 
 of the Lord maketh rich." "In all labor there 
 is profit." " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to 
 do, do it with all thy might." " Diligent in 
 business, fervent in spirit." 
 
 But we must penetrate a little further into 
 Mr. Budgett's character, and into the more se- 
 cret places of this great establishment. There 
 is one more habit to be spoken of a habit, I 
 am afraid, seldom found in places of business.
 
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 It is one which gives a hidden power to all 
 other good habits, increasing their excellency, 
 tempering their edge, and directing them as 
 means to a great and wise end. It is the habit 
 of daily prayer. 
 
 Every year, as soon as the brothers had taken 
 their account of stock and struck the balance, 
 they retired to an inner office, and kneeling 
 down before God, acknowledged his hand in 
 all the allotments of his providence, accepting 
 success with gratitude, and disappointment and 
 failure with humble submission to his holy will. 
 
 "I well remember," said a gentleman, "how 
 grateful to my own heart was the discovery 
 that every youth in that establishment had his 
 own private sleeping-room, with the express 
 understanding that this arrangement was made 
 in order that he might feel himself alone with 
 his Father which is in heaven, when at suitable 
 times he might wish to retire to read his Bible, 
 meditate, and pray." 
 
 " A habit of daily prayer," Mr. Arthur tells 
 us, " existed in the concern from the beginning. 
 When the business was only retail, all were 
 gathered together as a family ; and when it 
 branched out,**a portion of the premises at
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 69 
 
 Kings-wood was set apart as a 'chapel/ and 
 still stands there, serving many sacred pur- 
 poses. After their removal to Nelson-street, 
 in Bristol, this admirable habit was maintain- 
 ed, and a room was devoted to this purpose. 
 One of those who knew every joint of the es- 
 tablishment, who had risen with it, and loved it 
 as his own, remarked how this practice tended 
 to make the men orderly and regular in their 
 ways, even where decided piety was not known. 
 ' Besides, sir/ said the man, ' in this way the 
 men get to pray for the blessing of God on the 
 business, and there is a great deal in that. 
 Many would like to be as we are, but they can- 
 not without the same blessing.' " 
 
 In a religious paper of 1847, we find the fol- 
 lowing interesting article : 
 
 "EXAMPLE TO MERCANTILE ESTABLISH- 
 MENTS. 
 
 " ' Not slothful in business ; fervent in spirit.' 
 " On the second of November, after a drive 
 of several miles from the country, at half-past 
 seven in the morning, I dropped unintention- 
 ally into the extensive and long warehouses of 
 the Messrs. Budgett, in Nelson-street. I heard 
 singing, the ' voice of rejoicing and salvation/
 
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 in one of the upper rooms. The senior clerk 
 said to me, ' Our men are engaged in morning 
 prayers; will you not step up? Do, sir.' I 
 did so, and entered a room thirty or forty feet 
 long, furnished with benches having comforta- 
 ble backs, closely placed ; and at the upper end 
 was a table and large fire. I was surprised 
 and delighted to find from fifty to one hundred, 
 for every seat was occupied, chiefly porters in 
 their white frocks, all sitting in the stillness 
 and seriousness of family devotion. At the 
 table sat an interesting, devout laborer, giving 
 out one of our beautiful hymns with a tender- 
 ness and pathos which touched my heart. After 
 singing, I was requested to lead their devotions. 
 The Bible lay open on the table at the twenty- 
 fifth chapter of Matthew. I *read the appro- 
 priate parables of the virgins and the talents. 
 We then fell on our knees and worshipped the 
 God of all commerce in earth or seas, when 
 every man arose to attend the call of active 
 duty. I felt it no common privilege to join 
 with those praying porters and devout clerks ; 
 and the scene, so good, and coming so unex- 
 pectedly, has left an impression upon me which 
 I shall not soon forget. Is not this an example
 
 BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND HABITS. 71 
 
 to all commercial establishments an example 
 worthy of general imitation ? Here is a noble 
 room for the daily worship of God in the heart 
 of a range of warehouses, and the large num- 
 ber of hands employed therein have a regular 
 portion of time allotted to them for that holy 
 purpose. Precision, order, energy, and exact- 
 ness, are principles engraved on every depart- 
 ment of the vast business conducted here. But 
 every thing is 'sanctified by the word of God 
 and prayer ;' and therefore it is no matter of 
 surprise to those who have faith in the Bible, 
 that the proprietor of this exemplary mercan- 
 tile establishment, in addition to his having 
 much peace and piety among his men, has risen 
 from low and small beginnings to great wealth 
 and prosperity. ' Him that honoreth me, I will 
 
 honor.' 
 
 "A WESLEYAN MINISTER."
 
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 CHAPTER IT. 
 
 HIDDEN LIFE FIRE THE CHILDREN DOING 
 GOOD. 
 
 You will perhaps like to leave business and 
 follow Mr. Budgett home, or go with him by 
 the way, and observe him in his daily paths. 
 Soon after he entered into partnership with 
 Henry, he married a worthy young woman, 
 and took a little cottage in a lane opposite the 
 shop. Was he mainly bent on getting ahead 
 in the world ? Did his business chiefly occupy 
 him? Let us see. A little record was found, 
 which discloses his inward thought at this in- 
 teresting period, when the young couple were 
 beginning the journey of life together. It is 
 dated Jan. 24, 1822. 
 
 "Resolved, 1. To seek a deeper sense and 
 clearer discovery of my awful state through sin. 
 
 " 2. To seek to get satisfactory evidence that 
 I am accepted through Christ. 
 
 " 3. To make the service of God, and obedi- 
 ence to the dictates of his Spirit, the supreme 
 object of my life. 
 
 " 4. To begin to redeem time ; to be more
 
 HIDDEN LIFE. 73 
 
 moderate in my eating, drinking, and sleeping, 
 and to endeavor to make one word pass for 
 two, in order that my soul may grow in^grace 
 and be happy ; and all this I would do in hum- 
 ble dependence on the continual help of the 
 Holy Spirit. 
 
 " 5. To read every day a chapter or two of 
 Scripture." 
 
 Let every one read and ponder these. The 
 young merchant set apart seasons for rigid 
 self-examination. He remembered there was 
 a Judge on high who was an exact, though not 
 a hard master, to whom the thoughts and the 
 intents of the heart are known. 
 
 The following account with himself was found 
 in pencil among his papers, dated a few years 
 after the last. 
 
 "SUNDAY EVENING, Aug. 3, 1823. 
 1. I am conscious I have thought of myself 
 more highly than I ought to think. 
 
 " 2. I have sacrificed to my own net, and 
 burnt incense to my own drag. 
 
 " 3. I have ascribed my success to my own 
 wisdom. 
 
 " 4. I have boasted of what I have received 
 as if I had not received it.
 
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 " 5. I have gloried in very many things, save 
 the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 " 6. I have desired the praise of man, and 
 taken pleasure in it. 
 
 " 7. I have repeatedly given way to foolish 
 desires. 
 
 " 10. rifave often allowed myself to speak, if 
 not lies, yet what was not, in the strict sense, 
 truth in the love thereof. 
 
 " 12. I have not labored to do whatsoever I 
 did to the glory of God. 
 
 "13. I have indulged my bodily appetites." 
 
 You see how strict and searching he was 
 with himself. Secret sins, lurking within the 
 soul, ho hunted out, brought to light, and was 
 greatly oppressed on account of them. 
 
 " I shall never be happy," he says, " until I 
 find a Saviour from the love, the power, the 
 guilt, and the sad effects of sin. I believe such 
 a Saviour is provided, but he is not my Saviour ; 
 yet I am resolved to try if I cannot find him. 
 I will seek him first and oftenest, and with the 
 utmost diligence, for I am in danger till I do 
 find him." 
 
 With all the prosperity which began to roll 
 in upon the firm after Samuel joined it, he did
 
 A FIRE. 75 
 
 not neglect to make the prosperity of his soul 
 of chief account. He never lost sight of his 
 treasure in heaven, or forgot that it was of far 
 higher value than any earthly riches. 
 
 "AN ALARMING- FIRE." 
 
 Under this head what do we find ? " About 
 half-past seven on Tuesday evening," what year 
 I do not know, " great alarm was felt through- 
 out Bristol by the appearance upon the horizon 
 of a fire, evidently of immense extent, the heav- 
 ens being completely lit up with it, at about 
 five or six miles distant. Large crowds of 
 people immediately congregated upon Kings- 
 down and the various hills, and conjecture was 
 rife as to where it was raging. The arrival of 
 an express messenger on horseback for engines 
 and firemen, brought the news that the confla- 
 gration was upon the premises of Messrs. H. 
 II. & S. Budgett, at Kingswood Hill. The 
 Messrs. Budgett are among the most extensive 
 flour, sugar, tea, and general merchants in this 
 part of the kingdom, and are well known 
 throughout England for their extensive mer- 
 cantile transactions. They have several estab- 
 lishments in Bristol, but for reasons unknown
 
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 to us, have always held their central establish- 
 ment at Kingswood Hill. The fire was discov- 
 ered by one of their men, at about quarter past 
 seven, in a room called the ti tier-room, in which 
 refined sugars are kept ; and it is supposed 
 originated in one of the flues communicating to 
 that room. A messenger was instantly sent to 
 Bristol ; and in the mean time the alarm spread 
 rapidly through the village and neighborhood, 
 all the inhabitants of which immediately went 
 to assist in subduing the fire. Their efforts, it 
 was hoped at first, would have been successful ; 
 but in a few minutes the fire spread in a most 
 alarming manner, and speedily communicated 
 with the entire range of warehouses. At this 
 period the Norwich Union engines arrived and 
 played on the fire; the engines of the other 
 offices also speedily arrived. The fire in the 
 warehouses had, however, now reached so great 
 a height that it was evident their total de- 
 struction was inevitable ; and the efforts of all, 
 therefore, were directed to saving the adjoining 
 dwelling-houses, upon which the engines played, 
 to cut off communication with the burning 
 warehouses. These efforts were happily suc- 
 cessful, and both the dwelling-houses and the
 
 A FIEE. 77 
 
 stables of the establishment, in which were 
 forty-seven valuable horses, were saved. The 
 fire in the warehouses continued raging till four 
 o'clock in the morning, when it was got under ; 
 but not until all the warehouses, the counting- 
 rooms, and the retail shop had been completely 
 destroyed. The books, however, were saved. 
 This was most fortunate,. as their loss to a house 
 of such transactions as the Messrs. Budgett 
 would have been irretrievable. The stock con- 
 sumed consisted of refined sugars, cheese, coffee, 
 teas, flour, and must have amounted to several 
 thousands. They had just imported two large 
 cargoes of fruit, and a heavy stock of sugars, 
 which were, however, in their Bristol ware- 
 houses. The firm were insured to a large 
 amount eight thousand pounds in the Phenix, 
 and other sums in various offices." 
 
 Beyond the sums insured, their pecuniary loss 
 was about fifteen thousand dollars ; a heavy and 
 unexpected check to the rising merchants. All 
 earthly goods may perish in a few hours. The 
 evening sun may set on our thrift and comfort 
 and goodly possessions ; the morning sun may 
 rise on their smoking ruins. These pious mer- 
 chants, no doubt, accepted the disaster as the
 
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 wise ordering of His providence who doetli all 
 things well, and they set about immediately to 
 repair the breach thus suddenly and fearfully 
 made in their business. 
 
 What was to be done? A circular was. is- 
 sued and sent to all their customers in the morn- 
 ing, stating the impossibility of fulfilling their 
 orders for that day, but on the next day the 
 goods should be sent as usual. Mr. Budgett 
 hastened to Bristol, hired a building next to a 
 small warehouse which he already had in that 
 city, set every body to work, organized his 
 business, was in readiness to dispatch his goods 
 according to promise, and henceforth made 
 Bristol the seat of the firm, where it grew and 
 enlarged and prospered, and was perfected into 
 that remarkable system which made it a model 
 mercantile concern, worthy both of scrutiny 
 and imitation. 
 
 In progress of time Mr. Budgett bought the 
 old quarry hallowed by the Sabbath memories 
 of his boyhood, filled it up, and made it into a 
 beautiful garden. The little cottage in the lane 
 was in time exchanged for a large and substan- 
 tial dwelling-house, surrounded by green lawns, 
 hedge-rows, fruit-trees, and shade-trees, in the
 
 HIS MOTHER'S SICKNESS. 79 
 
 planting and growth of which he took great 
 delight. All the beauties of the outward world 
 he had an eye to see and a heart to enjoy. 
 
 " Can you help admiring the present beauti- 
 ful weather ?" he says. " See how spring and 
 summer are approaching already. The birds 
 sing merrily ; the days lengthen fast ; the flow- 
 ers are beginning to decorate the hedges and 
 the banks ; the fields are increasing in verdure 
 and beauty ; and I hope you and I shall endeav- 
 or to keep pace with all nature in praising our 
 Creator and Redeemer." 
 
 His excellent mother lived to see the pros- 
 perity and usefulness of her beloved son. The 
 last we hear of her is from a letter written by 
 Samuel to his sister in January, 1831. 
 
 "I have just returned from Winterbourn," 
 he writes, " from beholding one of the most in- 
 teresting sights this world affords ; I mean the 
 happy, truly happy, sick and dying bed of a 
 saint ripe for glory. Such is our dear mother. 
 You have seen her. She is not now less happy, 
 only less sensible of her pain. Her soul still 
 triumphs in prospect of the glory which awaits 
 her, and which in all probability she will in a 
 few days be introduced to.
 
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 " ' Mark the perfect man,' etc. How is that 
 text illustrated in her experience ! May it be 
 equally so in yours and mine. In order to that, 
 we have to live the life of the righteous, and we 
 are sure to die the death. I hope, my dear sis- 
 ter, you are making progress. Remember, we 
 are safe and happy only as we are vigorously 
 pressing forward. To halt is to go back." 
 
 But as the old friends and beloved relatives 
 of a past generation dropped into their graves, 
 a new and young generation was springing up 
 around him. Sons and. daughters were born 
 to him ; nephews and nieces gladdened him by 
 their visits; young people loved to seek his 
 counsel and share in his affections. 
 
 Home he endeavored to make a happy place 
 for his children a place where they loved best 
 to be, and where every innocent amusement 
 was provided for play hours and healthful rec- 
 reation. There we find donkeys to ride, chick- 
 ens to rear, rabbits, guinea-pigs, dogs; garden 
 beds to cultivate, gooseberries and currant- 
 bushes to look after, swings, etc. Mr. Budgett 
 loved to be with his children ; he sympathized 
 with them in all their joys and sorrows, and 
 very early invited their sympathy with him.
 
 HIS CHILDREN. 81 
 
 lie used to talk with them about his business 
 and daily affairs, explain to them his reasons 
 for pursuing this or that course of action, ask 
 their advice, disclose his perplexities, and thus 
 teach them to think and to judge and feel upon 
 important matters at an age when most parents 
 would banish their children from the family 
 councils to the school-room or the playground. 
 
 He believed that children were entitled to the 
 society of their parents ; that it was one mode, 
 and one important mode of educating them in 
 the knowledge, the duties, and obligations of 
 practical life. Parents perhaps sometimes over- 
 look this, and leave their children to gain their 
 knowledge of the world from intercourse which 
 they could the least desire. 
 
 But the one great aim, the one constant prayer 
 for his children, was their conversion to God. 
 Less than that gave no satisfaction to his soul. 
 They were surrounded by every influence favor- 
 able to Christian nurture the family altar, 
 the sacred keeping of the Sabbath, godly ac- 
 quaintance, works of Christian charity, sympa- 
 thy with every good thing ; and yet this pious 
 father felt that something more was necessary 
 to renew and sanctify the heart the influence 
 
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 of the Holy Spirit. He was instant in season 
 and out of season in parental faithfulness to 
 bring them to a like precious faith in Christ, 
 which was the sun and the joy of his own soul. 
 The following letter shows the tender concern 
 of a pious father's heart. 
 
 " MY DEAR SARAH ANN Your kind note I 
 duly received by the hand of your brother 
 James, for which I thank yon. Be assured that 
 it gives me much pleasure to know that I am 
 affectionately remembered by any member of 
 my family, and especially by our little daugh- 
 ter. I hope you are trying to be a good girl. 
 If you knew how much the happiness of those 
 who love you depended on your conduct, I think 
 that if nothing else proved a sufficient motive 
 to good behavior, that would ; but then my 
 dear little girl knows very well that her own 
 happiness, both in this world and the next, de- 
 ponds upon her giving her heart to God. Do 
 not, my dear child, live one hour without being 
 satisfied that God is just now pleased with you, 
 that is, that you have his favor ; for we are 
 happy if we share his smile, his counsel, and 
 his care. May you, my child, be truly devoted
 
 HIS CHILDREN. 83 
 
 to God in youth, and then you will bo prepared 
 for a useful life, or for early death. You may 
 write me as often as you please, and I will try 
 to answer your letters. Tell me all the work- 
 ings of your little mind, all your hopes and all 
 your fears, all your joys and all your sorrows." 
 
 And this faithful and praying parent did 
 have the happiness of seeing his children, one 
 by one, early in life become penitent believers 
 in Christ ; walking in the path of his com- 
 mandments, growing in the knowledge of God, 
 and with "ready mind and active will" fulfil- 
 ling the duties of the Christian life. Few par- 
 ents can write as here follows : 
 
 " MY DEAR LITTLE SALLY Your kind letter 
 to mamma we duly received, and I should have 
 written to you before now, but I have been very 
 unwell, so weak that I have scarcely been able 
 to read or write ; but I am thankful to inform 
 you I am now getting better, and I hope soon 
 to recover my strength. I assure you, we think 
 and talk of you very often, and we do not cease 
 to pray for you. What a mercy it is, my dear 
 child, that as a family we are all seeking our
 
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 happiness from one source, and that the right 
 one. How insignificant does every thing else 
 look when compared with this, even in this life, 
 and in the possession of health, wealth, and all 
 that the world calls great and good ; but look 
 a little further a sick-bed, a dying hour, a 
 judgment-day, all of which will very soon be 
 present ; and how then shall we value all be- 
 sides this one thing needful, this divine love ! 
 The Lord fill my dear child's heart ; and then 
 from the abundance of the heart the mouth will 
 speak, and you will, you must, however uncon- 
 sciously, be made useful to others. 
 
 Tis worth living for this, 
 To administer bliss, 
 And salvation in Jesus' name. - 
 
 I believe we are all as a family going to heav- 
 en. Glory be to God. 
 
 " Yours, affectionately, 
 
 "PAPA AND MAMMA." 
 
 What a fountain of holy joy does this let- 
 ter disclose within this Christian household. 
 His success, his prosperity, his worldly connec- 
 tions, his houses and his lands, all sink in value 
 before the higher blessing of a whole family 
 converted to 'Christ, members of the household
 
 HIS CHILDREN. 85 
 
 of faith. "He blesseth the habitation of the 
 just." The happiness of how many prosperous 
 families is imbittered by the waywardness, the 
 danger, the ruin of a son ; the comfort of how 
 many pious parents is destroyed by the irre- 
 ligion and free-thinking of their children. 
 Why is this ? Is there any such defect or fail- 
 ure in parental discipline or watchfulness as 
 may serve as a warning and corrective to the 
 anxious and perplexed spirits of thousands of 
 other parents seeking to bring up their chil- 
 dren in the nurture and admonition of the 
 Lord? 
 
 Mr. Budgett early gave his sons responsible 
 posts in his business ; and as a proof of the 
 confidence which he placed in them, when the 
 oldest of his boys was but twenty-one, he al- 
 lowed the four to take a journey on the conti- 
 nent by themselves, with no confidential ser- 
 vant or faithful friend to watch over their go- 
 ings : nor was the confidence misplaced or 
 abused ; their virtues seemed strengthened by 
 the very expectations which they well under- 
 stood their father had of them. 
 
 The busy merchant and faithful father also 
 found time to encourage and quicken the hearts
 
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 of other youth besides those more immediately 
 related to him by kindred or business. 
 
 " We cannot indeed too highly value time," 
 he writes to a young friend. " In this I have 
 been truly deficient. If we would rise early, 
 we must begin at the right end, that is, by go- 
 ing to bed early, or all will be lost labor. You 
 must have seven hours sleep. An alarum is a 
 very good thing ; but if we neglect the call a 
 few times, like the calls of the Spirit on our 
 consciences, it will be ineffectual. 
 
 " I am glad you still retain love to God after 
 seven years' experience. May it be increased 
 seven times seven. I think nothing is so cal- 
 culated to remove reserve as zeal for God and 
 humility. We think too much of ourselves, and 
 not enough of the importance of being found 
 faithful. May you, my dear friend, become 
 truly simple of heart, and dead to the opinion 
 of others when it stands in the way of duty. 
 You have not wearied me. Your letters are 
 no tax on my time. I am always very glad to 
 hear from you, and the more freely you write to 
 me, the more you please me." 
 
 On another occasion we find him thus writing 
 to a young Sabbath-school teacher.
 
 HIS CHILDREN. 87 
 
 " MY VEEY DEAR FRIEND I am truly thank- 
 ful that God has so graciously inclined your 
 heart to seek your happiness where alone true 
 enjoyment can be found, and that He has not 
 only blessed, but made you a blessing. 
 
 " If you are faithful, He will give you grace 
 to lose yourself in him, as a drop in the ocean, 
 and your prayers will be frequently offered and 
 graciously answered. 
 
 " ' Keep me dead to all below, 
 Only Christ resolved to know, 
 Firm and disengaged and free, 
 Seeking all my bliss in thee.' 
 
 " You will feel so impressed with the value 
 of souls and your responsibility to God, that 
 you will never rest until all the girls in your 
 class arc brought from darkness to light. I re- 
 member a young person who had thirteen schol- 
 ars, and for several years she saw but little 
 fruit of her labor, until she was almost discour- 
 aged ; . but instead of giving up, she began to 
 wrestle with God in earnest, persevering, faith- 
 ful prayer ; and in a short time one of the girls 
 showed a serious concern for her spiritual wel- 
 fare, and began to inquire with deep anxiety 
 what she must do to be saved. This soon
 
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 spread through the class, and in a few months 
 every child gave satisfactory evidence that her 
 heart was changed." 
 
 One favorite mode of doing good was the time- 
 ly lending of religious books and tracts. Chris- 
 tian biography he regarded as choice reading, 
 as tending to quicken growth in grace, and urge 
 us on in the divine life. 
 
 " But all good things require to be read pray- 
 erfully, and in faith," he says. " And are we 
 not too apt to think there was something pecul- 
 iar in the individuals, rather than in the faith by 
 which they derived all their excellences ? The 
 fountain of all good is as full and as free of ac- 
 cess now, and to us, as ever it was to them ; and 
 we have only to exercise the same faith, and all 
 the good will be as surely ours as ever it was 
 theirs." 
 
 Thus he extracted good where others per- 
 haps only sought enjoyment. " No gains with- 
 out pains," in self-knowledge or religious im- 
 provement. 
 
 He seldom, went out to walk, or for a drive, 
 without a bundle of tracts or a pocketful of 
 little books. And one room in his house was 
 indeed a sort of Tract and Sabbath-school book
 
 DOING- G-SOD. 89 
 
 depository, lined with shelves, where he kept a 
 large stock on hand for distribution. It was 
 seldom lean or empty, for he was in the habit 
 of replenishing it every now and then by fifty 
 dollars' worth of reading at a time. 
 
 " With respect to his liberality to the cause of 
 God, he far excelled any one that / ever met with 
 in the church of Christ," said a clergyman who 
 knew him well ; and this we can readily believe. 
 
 When an application was made to him for 
 any benevolent object, he never was heard to 
 excuse himself, either wholly or jn part, from 
 it, by saying, " I have had so many cases lately," 
 though many he must have had. 
 
 If asked by any one who knew all the circum- 
 stances of the case for which his charity was 
 needed, his reply often was, " Well, how much 
 do you think I ought to give?" And whether it 
 was five, ten, fifteen, or twenty pounds, the sum 
 was cheerfully given. Many a bank-note and 
 sovereign did he leave at the parsonage, or slip 
 into his minister's hand, to be distributed as he 
 thought necessary among the poor of his flock. 
 Nor did he confine these benefactions to his 
 own pastor ; the other clergymen of his neigh- 
 borhood were often the stewards of his bounty.
 
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 To give you another instance of his readi- 
 ness to do good, and his ability in carrying out 
 his plans, I will abbreviate a little story told 
 by Mr. Arthur. One Sunday evening, on Mr. 
 Budgett's return from a neighboring village, 
 where he had been exhorting in an evening 
 lecture, he passed squads of rough-looking, idle, 
 lawless lads lounging on the grass, but jogging 
 on to ruin. He stopped and began to talk with 
 them, and talked until he secured their atten- 
 tion. "Now," said 'he at ending, "if I gave 
 you a good J;ea, would you like to come and 
 take it?" 
 
 " Oh yes, oh yes !" the boys answered. It 
 was what, I fancy, they seldom had. 
 
 " Come, then," said Mr. Budgett in his friend- 
 ly tone, "to the vestry of Kingswood chapel 
 to-morrow evening. We are going to have a 
 little meeting, and you shall have a good tea." 
 
 It was to be a tea-meeting for the tract dis- 
 tributers. 
 
 The boys came, tickets were handed them, 
 and they ate and drank as hungry boys who 
 seldom see so nicely set tables might be sup- 
 posed to do. "And have you had a good sup- 
 per?" asked Mr. Budgett.
 
 DOING GOOD. 91 
 
 " 'Ees, thank 'ee." 
 
 " I dare say you know many young men who 
 go about in the lane Sunday night." 
 
 " 'ees." 
 
 " Do you think, if I promised them a good 
 tea, they would like to come here ?" 
 
 The boys thought none of them would object 
 to the tea ; but they looked shy, and there was 
 a "but" in the way. Mr. Budgett did not stop 
 to inquire what it was ; but a hundred tickets 
 were soon made out, to be handed to their fel- 
 lows, all the " Toms, Dicks, and Harrys" round 
 about, inviting thejn to a bountiful treat at the 
 chapel hall on Mr. Budgett's premises. A good 
 many of them hesitated about accepting the in- 
 vitation ; " they did not want to be hooked into 
 a prayer-meeting," they said. However, there 
 was the promised treat; they were sure they 
 did not want to lose their chance at that ; so, 
 among the ringleaders, the matter was com- 
 promised in this way : they would go and take 
 tea, and then "bolt" as soon as it was over, for 
 they of. course concluded their host had some 
 religiou!-; end to be answered, and " they had no 
 mind to be done good to," 
 
 On the appointed evening every thing was
 
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 arranged ; a hundred of them came, as wild, 
 uncouth, and unpromising a set of guests as 
 was ever gathered together. It was evident, 
 after a while, that in one group seemed to be 
 the " ringleaders ;" and the coarse and boister- 
 ous words which proceeded from it, seemed to 
 defy any attempt to tame or to restrain them. 
 But the good merchant and his party knew the 
 stuff they had to deal with. Towards the close 
 of the supper, one of Mr. Budgett's sons, James 
 or Edwin, for both went heart and hand with 
 their father in his labors of love, pushed into 
 this group, and began a talk with the leader, a 
 rough, sailor-like looking fellow, who first tried 
 by his wit and rudeness to put the " young gen- 
 tleman " down. It soon grew more evident 
 that a preconcerted signal to go was near at 
 hand, when Mr. Budgett went into the desk, 
 and said, " I asked you to come here for the 
 purpose of doing something for you some- 
 thing that will be of use to you. Now, just as 
 a start, I will give you fifty pounds, and you 
 must make up your minds what you will do 
 with it." 
 
 Fifty pounds! They could run away from 
 a prayer-meeting, but to run away from fifty
 
 DOING- GOOD. 93 
 
 pounds was quite another sort of thing, and 
 not to be thought of. Hats were off, feet were 
 turned from the door, and all eyes turned to 
 the desk. 
 
 " Fifty pounds !" exclaimed one of Mr. Bud- 
 gett's friends, who understood what was his aim, 
 and yet was around among his rough guests 
 " fifty pounds ! that 's something. Why, there 
 are about a hundred of us ; and suppose we di- 
 vide it among us, there will be half a sovereign 
 apiece." 
 
 A very agreeable plan to most of the com" 
 pany, no doubt, but very far from the reckon- 
 ing of their host. 
 
 "No, no!' 7 started up another friend of Mr. 
 Budgett; "it would be very foolish to throw 
 away fifty pounds in such a manner. Can't we 
 put it to some use that will do us good, and 
 make it last?" and so the matter came up for 
 a spirited discussion what use to put the money 
 to, which soon kindled a great interest even 
 among the most stupid and depraved of the 
 street youth. And the affair was so managed 
 that it issued in a motion to form a society for 
 mental improvement, to be called the "Kings- 
 wood Young Men's Association." The motion
 
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 was seconded and carried by a strong vote. And 
 when, in the final arrangement, several of these 
 rough fellows were placed on committees to 
 carry out their plans, it was curious to witness 
 the surprise, interest, and gratification which 
 lighted up their sharp, trickish-looking faces. 
 Mr. Budgett was voted in treasurer, and their 
 place of meeting was appointed at the vestry 
 of the ^chapel, after the Sunday evening service. 
 So far so good, and the party separated with 
 mutual good-will. 
 
 But how many would be likely to reappear 
 on the next Sabbath evening? Sixty came ; and 
 the number testified what encouragement there 
 is to labor even in the most unpromising fields. 
 Let Christian men and women go to work just 
 where they are, in God's name, for the good of 
 souls, and nothing will surprise them more than 
 the vanishing of discouragements, and the tokens 
 of hope and success which will cheer them on 
 the way. " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, 
 do it with thy might," and the moral heathen- 
 ism of our villages and cities will shrink into 
 a diminished compass, if not quite away, before 
 the warm affections and redeeming power and 
 living elements of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
 
 DOING GOOD. 95 
 
 That little verse contains the vital principle of 
 the whole matter. 
 
 "The Association" regularly held meetings 
 on Sunday night, and once a week for secular 
 instruction. A library was bought with the 
 fifty pounds, lectures were sometimes given by 
 the masters of the Kingswood schools, and year 
 by year a tea-meeting was given, at which books 
 were sometimes given as rewards. 
 
 According to the great law of Christian be- 
 nevolence, that the more it does the more it 
 wants to do, this successful movement for the 
 moral improvement of the young men, suggested 
 to Mr. Budgett the importance and necessity of 
 something similar for the young women. This 
 was accordingly done. And once a year, also, 
 the "Young Females' Association" met on his 
 grounds, to enjoy a delicious supper on tea and 
 strawberries. This, however, was but a little 
 of the real good which they received during 
 the year. These associations cost Mr. Budgett 
 about two hundred dollars a year, and proved 
 to be one of his sagacious and profitable invest- 
 ments, for it gave him the clear returns of num- 
 bers saved from vice, the moral and mental im- 
 provement of many, and conversions to God not
 
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 a few. A Bible class he formed and took charge 
 of among the young women, which was abun- 
 dantly blessed of God, and which at the time 
 of his death numbered forty. 
 
 On one occasion he said to a friend, " Every 
 morning, before you leave your room, inquire, 
 ' Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do ?' and 
 every evening ask yourself, ' How much owest 
 thou unto thy Lord?' Keep short reckonings 
 with him, go forward, and your path shall be 
 as that of the just, shining more and more unto 
 the perfect day." 
 
 Was not herein the secret spring of his 
 labors ?
 
 THE rOOR. 97 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE POOR A SUDDEN STROKE HAPPY 
 ENDING-. 
 
 MR. BUDGETT was emphatically the poor man's 
 friend, and the poor always felt him to be their 
 friend. In his intercourse with them, he never 
 forgot the small courtesies of life. His friend- 
 liness they never doubted, and therefore reproof 
 and counsel they received from him with respect 
 and thankfulness, even when not followed by 
 amendment. His words by the way, were more 
 valuable than scatterings of gold. 
 
 The " hauliers " of the coal-carts running be- 
 tween Kingswood and Bristol, a rough and bul- 
 lying set of fellows, often provoking quarrels 
 with other travellers on the road, could never 
 resist the pleasant "good-morning" of the pious 
 merchant, or scarcely dare fire off their volley 
 of oaths in his hearing, or show fight, if he 
 were discovered in the distance. 
 
 One afternoon as he was driving a friend into 
 Bristol, the road in one place was almost block- 
 ed up by the return wagons of the " hauliers,"
 
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 who had stopped and stepped in to a neighbor- 
 ing inn. A boy was sent in to call them out. 
 
 " Why, is this you, B ?" cried Mr. Budgett, 
 
 as a stout-built fellow with a face begrimed 
 with coal, came bustling out of the house, draw- 
 ing the back of his hand across his mouth, fresh 
 from the can. " I am sorry to see you there ; 
 here, come round to me :" then lowering his 
 
 voice, he said kindly, "B , my poor fellow, 
 
 you have a wife and children at home. Have 
 they any thing to eat?" "Not much, I be 
 afeared, sir," said the man, trying to smile, 
 though looking much ashamed. 
 
 "Well, tell me now, how much have you just 
 spent?" asked Mr. Budgett. 
 
 " Why, threepence ; but I had it gee'd by th' 
 lady 'at had t' coal." 
 
 "Well, never mind who gave it to you, but 
 tell me what you spent when you went into 
 Bristol this morning ?" 
 
 " Why, threepence." 
 
 "Well, the lady did not give you that; but 
 no matter how you came by the money, so it 
 was honestly got. What I want you to think 
 about is this : by your own showing, you have 
 spent sixpence to-day on beer ; if you have done
 
 THE POOR. 99 
 
 the same every day this week, then you have 
 three shillings less in your pocket than you 
 might have had. Now, as you go along, just 
 consider how many little things that three shil- 
 lings would have bought for the real comfort of 
 your wife, yourself, and your children ; you say 
 you fear they have little to eat at home now, 
 and you have spent sixpence upon yourself" 
 an English sixpence is twelve of our cents. " Is 
 that kind? Nay, don't make any excuses. I 
 know you feel you have done wrong. Don't, 
 my poor fellow, repeat it. One word more; 
 if you persist in this habit, you will become a 
 drunkard, and the Bible tells you, ' Drunkards 
 shall not inherit the kingdom of God.' It will 
 lead you into all wickedness, and the Bible tells 
 you, 'The wicked shall be turned into hell.' 
 
 B ," he added solemnly, "think of this; 
 
 tell your companions there what I have said to 
 you; and above all, pray that God may bless 
 what I have said to you, and that he may make 
 you a more thoughtful and better man." 
 
 The poor man listened with respectful atten- 
 tion. His look became downcast. "Thank 
 you, sir," he said with much feeling when his 
 friend ceased speaking. "It is very good for
 
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 gentlemen such as you, to talk this way to poor 
 men like me." 
 
 During the scarcity of bread, in 1846 and 
 1847, he employed one hundred and fifty extra 
 hands on small wages ; adding every Saturday 
 night, to those who had families, what might be 
 sufficient to meet their daily wants. Thousands 
 he spent merely to give employment, for main- 
 taining men in idleness he felt was a bounty 
 without a blessing. 
 
 Not having leisure for visiting the poor as 
 much as he desired, in order to ascertain their 
 destitution, and what kind of help they stood in 
 greatest need of, he hired a visitor in his stead, 
 a neighbor, who labored in this good work, 
 dropping the sympathies and the charities of 
 the busy merchant into many a comfortless 
 home and wretched bosom. 
 
 He noticed, at one time, an unusually down- 
 cast and sad expression on the face of one of 
 his men. Finding it did not wear off, he sent 
 for him to his counting-room, and after a while, 
 drew from him the story of his secret burden. 
 "Master, I am in debt," said the poor man in 
 tones of grief, " and every time I go near the 
 river something bids me fling myself into it,
 
 THE POOR. 101 
 
 telling me there's water enough to rid me of all 
 my troubles, and that if I don't I shall be sent 
 into the prison there for debt." 
 
 Upon farther inquiry, it was found to have 
 grown out of the long sickness of his wife, and 
 having assured himself that the man had not 
 broken the regulation of a Society of which he 
 was a member, "Not to contract a debt with- 
 out at least a reasonable prospect of discharg- 
 ing it," Mr. Budgett asked him if the payment 
 of his debts would restore his peace of mind. 
 The man looked as if that could not be. 
 
 " Well, come," said the merchant, " I do not 
 think things are quite so bad as they appear to 
 
 be. See here, my poor fellow, you owe 
 
 pounds : it 's a very large sum for a man like 
 you, to be sure ; but if you had run into debt 
 to any thing like this amount through extrav- 
 agance or thoughtlessness, I should have re- 
 garded it as an act of dishonesty on your part, 
 and I might have felt it right to discharge you. 
 But you are to be pitied, and not to be blamed. 
 Cold pity alone goes for nothing, so let us see 
 how you can be helped out of your troubles. 
 Now, do you think your creditors, considering 
 all the circumstances, would take one half, and
 
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 be satisfied? here is Dr. Edwards, his bill is the 
 heaviest ; if we can get him to take one half " 
 
 " One half, master I" exclaimed the poor man ; 
 " but if they would take one half, where 's the 
 money to come from? I ar'n't got a shilling 
 in the world, but what 's coming to me Friday 
 night; and when I take my wages now, I 
 ar'n't any pleasure in looking at the money, be- 
 cause it ar'n't my own ; it should go to pay my 
 debts, and I 'm obliged to use it to buy victuals. 
 I think I shall never be happy again." 
 
 Deeply affected by the poor man's case, Mr. 
 Budgett begged him to cheer up, for a friend 
 had placed in his hands a sum equal to one half 
 of his debts ; he then sent him back to his work, 
 and on his way, to order his horse to be har- 
 nessed, and brought around to him in ten min- 
 utes. Mr. Budgett drove round to all the 
 man's creditors, compromised with them, and 
 brought home their bills receipted in full for 
 the respective debts. The man was again sent 
 for to the counting-room, and as bill after 
 bill was handed to him, he could only clutch 
 them with a stare of wonder and strange uncer- 
 tainty. 
 
 " But, master," he at last cried, when words
 
 THE POOR. 103 
 
 came, " where 's the money come from?" " Never 
 mind that," answered his master ; " go home and 
 tell your wife you are out of debt, you are an 
 independent man. I only hope the creditors 
 have felt something of the satisfaction in for- 
 giving you one half of your debt to them, that 
 we know God feels in forgiving our debts to 
 him for Christ's sake ; I have said that much 
 totjall of them." 
 
 " But, master, where 's the money come from?" 
 asked the man, with a still puzzled and bewil- 
 dered look. 
 
 " Well, well, I told you a Friend had given 
 it to me for you. You know that Friend as 
 well as I do. There now, you may leave your 
 work for to-day; go home to your wife, and 
 thank that Friend together for making you an 
 independent man. But stay, I had almost for- 
 gotten one thing : I called to see Mr. P 
 
 as I drove through Stoke's Croft. I told him 
 the errand that had taken me from home all 
 day, and he gave me a sovereign for you to 
 begin the world with." 
 
 It would perhaps be difficult to tell which 
 was the happiest, the master or his man. 
 
 "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil
 
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 the law of Christ." Is it a law we are suffi- 
 ciently mindful of? 
 
 And thus the current of Mr. Budgett's life 
 flowed on. Foes, ingratitude, disappointments, 
 crosses, he indeed met with, but they never dis- 
 couraged him from good, they never daunted 
 him in conflicts with evils, they never dimmed 
 the sunshiny friendliness of his nature. 
 
 "No pains, no gains," contains within itself 
 the very elements of combat and of victory. 
 "No cross, no crown/' is the condition of our 
 title to heaven. 
 
 But there may be some who would know 
 more of the inner life of this eminent servant 
 of God. Was he, so diligent in business, so 
 fervent in spirit, ever subject to darkness of 
 mind ? Did the tempter ever hard besiege him? 
 Did a sense of shortcoming and unprofitable- 
 ness ever obscure his hope of heaven ? Let him 
 answer for himself. 
 
 " KINGSWOOD HILL, Nov. 23, 1843. 
 
 "Mr DEAR BROTHER JAMES I forced my 
 heavenly Father to use the rod, but I am aston- 
 ished to think with what gentleness he has cor- 
 rected me. The first Sunday I was unwell, I 
 made a fresh act of faith, and ventured my
 
 INNER LIFE. 105 
 
 whole soul on the atonement. My heart seemed 
 to have been broken in a thousand pieces, and 
 I felt like weeping my life away for having 
 grieved my God. For the first week I held 
 fast my confidence, and felt calm as in the 
 hands of my loving Saviour. But on the second 
 Sabbath I grew much worse, so that I had little 
 hope of recovery. I began to reason with the 
 enemy, and let go my shield of faith ; and then 
 was truly the hour and the power of darkness. 
 I can never describe the bitter anguish I felt 
 on reviewing my past life, and great horror arid 
 gloom came over my mind with the thoughts of 
 being but just saved as by the skin of my teeth, 
 or of appearing before my Maker as an unprof- 
 itable servant, or perhaps of being a wander- 
 ing spirit cast out from God for ever. 
 
 " My agony of mind was such that I thought 
 I was dying, and really fainted away. I then 
 recovered, and then tried to recover my shield 
 of faith; but on Monday morning, Satan was 
 again permitted to buffet inc, and the conflict 
 was extreme. My dear sister Elizabeth then 
 came to my assistance, and said I was doing very 
 wrong ; that I ought to come to the Saviour as 
 at first I came, and that she believed I would
 
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 recover ; but that if I died, I was safe for heaven. 
 I immediately took courage, and said, ' Lord, I 
 did believe, and was happy ; and thou hast said, 
 ' Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise 
 cast out.' I come, I believe I will, I do believe.' 
 My heart seemed melted to tenderness, and the 
 name of Jesus was exceedingly precious. Sis- 
 ter Elizabeth then said, ' Cannot you now put 
 in your claim for the blessing of full salvation ? 
 Remember the promise, 'I will circumcise thy 
 heart.' ' I said, ' I am suffering all this, because 
 I would not take the necessary pains to obtain 
 that blessing, when that very promise was so 
 often and so powerfully impressed on my mind ; 
 and it was so clearly my duty to obtain, to 
 enjoy, and to preach that great and glorious 
 gospel privilege to others. I could not hold 
 fast even a sense of my acceptance with God, 
 or overcome various temptations to sin, and it 
 is of the Lord's mercies that I am not con- 
 sumed ;' but when sister Elizabeth said, ' Put in 
 your claim now,' I cried, ' Lord, thou hast said, 
 ' I will circumcise/ etc. ; now fulfil thine own 
 word ; I hang upon thy word ; thou wilt do it. 
 I dare believe.' I did not struggle long before 
 my heart seemed deeply humbled, filled with
 
 INNER LIFE. 
 
 love unutterable to God and all mankind. I 
 however, could not entertain an idea that God 
 could spare my life ; and though I felt safe and 
 happy, I could not feel willing to die, even to 
 go to heaven, with such a consciousness of un- 
 faithfulness up to the eleventh hour, and ear- 
 nestly prayed, ' Oh, spare me a little, that I may 
 recover strength before I go hence, to be here 
 no more.' On the following morning my dear 
 wife came into my room with the Bible in her 
 hand, saying, ' I have just opened upon this pas- 
 sage : ' For my name's sake will I defer mine 
 anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, 
 that I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined 
 thee, but not with silver ; I have chosen thee 
 in the furnace of affliction.' Isaiah 48 : 9, 10.' 
 Never did Scripture so powerfully impress my 
 mind. I said, 'It is the word of God to me, 
 in answer to his servant's prayers ; I shall not 
 die, but live.' 
 
 " From that time I never entertained a doubt 
 but that I should have another opportunity of 
 preaching salvation, full salvation by Jesus 
 Christ, to every one who will put in their claim 
 for it. My mind has since been kept in perfect 
 peace, and I have been gradually recovering.
 
 108 NO TAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 " Now, my dear brother James, my object in 
 being thus minute in the description is, first to 
 lead you, as you would avoid the gloom, the 
 horror, the anguish, such as no tongue can tell, 
 or the more tremendous consequences, of being 
 hurried out of time into eternity ; as you would 
 enjoy this life tenfold more than you possibly 
 can without it ; as you would be unspeakably 
 happy, safe, useful, and rising daily in refine- 
 ment and elevation of character ; and as you 
 would have a glorious entrance administered 
 to you among the saints in light : in a word, 
 as you would escape hell, and gain heaven se- 
 curely, that you at once give the Lord your 
 whole heart, and accept his full salvation. This, 
 my dear brother, is much easier than doing it 
 by halves. I am, my dear brother, most affec- 
 tionately, yours, " s. B. v 
 
 In Edwin the second son, appeared, more 
 than in any other of the children, the marked 
 traits of his father. In business, sagacity, de- 
 cision, and promptness. At home, he was the 
 obedient child, and loving brother ; at the Sun- 
 day-school, a faithful teacher ; in the prayer- 
 meeting, "fervent, devout, and prevailing;''
 
 A SUDDEN STROKE. 109 
 
 among the poor, the sympathizing, active, per- 
 sonal friend and helper. His buoyant spirits, 
 his joyous smile, his unaffected piety, his sweet 
 song, made him a delightful companion to the 
 young and the old. Never, perhaps, was there 
 a more beautiful example of household religion 
 than that in which he was reared, and no 
 branch of the parent stock was more vigorous, 
 more fruitful, more full of promise, than he. 
 He was a young man whom the church could 
 not afford to lose, and whom the world stood in 
 need of. 
 
 Never perhaps, in this Christian family, was 
 their cup more full of blessing, than when the 
 summer sun of 1849 shone upon them. Peace, 
 prosperity, and health, were theirs, thankfully 
 received, and humbly enjoyed. 
 
 The Sabbath of July 22d, found Edwin, as 
 usual, doing and getting good. The Sabbath- 
 school and the house of God saw him at his 
 post of duty, and place of worship. In the 
 evening, the brothers sang together, as they 
 often did ; and in the following lines from a 
 hymn of Charles Wesley, their voices seemed 
 to rise with more than common fervor and 
 devotion :
 
 110 NO PAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 " How happy every child of grace 
 
 Who knows his sins forgiven : 
 This earth, he cries, is not my place, 
 
 I seek my place in heaven, 
 A country far from mortal sight ; 
 
 Yet 0, by faith I see 
 The land of rest, the saint's delight, 
 
 The heaven prepai-ed for me. 
 
 Then let me suddenly remove, 
 
 That hidden life to share ; 
 I shall not lose my friends above, 
 
 But more enjoy them there. 
 There we in Jesus' praise shall join, 
 
 His boundless love proclaim ; 
 And solemnize in songs divine, 
 
 The marriage of the Lamb." 
 
 The father, about leaving the room at the 
 beginning of the second verse, lingered at the 
 door deeply affected, and awed by the new 
 beauty and significance which the words and 
 the music seemed to possess. There was an 
 expression in Edwin's voice which showed his 
 own soul kindling in sympathy with the feel- 
 ings of the pious poet. 
 
 On Thursday evening, he was at his class- 
 meeting, a meeting for prayer and religious 
 fellowship, and when asked if he could testify 
 that he was assuredly born again, made a child
 
 A SUDDEN STROKE. Ill 
 
 of God and heir of heaven, " I feel thankful," 
 he answered humbly, " that I do know that I 
 am a child of God. I have had in the past 
 week seasons of communion with him, and de- 
 sire more constantly to realize his presence, and 
 live to his glory." 
 
 Two days after this, Edwin was dead; he 
 died of cholera. How did the father bear this 
 heavy stroke? 
 
 " The moment he either saw or felt the rod," 
 his minister tells us, "'/have sinned' was on 
 his lips, or in the depths of his heart. The 
 dread evening when his beloved son was writh- 
 ing in the grasp of the disease, leaving him in 
 other hands, he meets his class, and then takes 
 a poor intelligent pious man, a local preacher, 
 ' his own son in the faith/ and returns in dark- 
 ness to the lone summer-house in his extensive 
 lawn, and they long continued wrestling to- 
 gether, 'with strong crying and tears ;' the per- 
 sonal dread of His wrath who is ' glorious in 
 holiness,' absorbing the anguish of the parent's 
 natural affection. Returning in the advanced 
 night to his afflicted dwelling, with the cry, 
 My sins, my sins are the cause of all this!' 
 his pious children gather around him, and all
 
 112 NO PAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 in succession, from the oldest to the youngest, 
 are heard pleading with God for their father's 
 consolation and deliverance. This piercing 
 apprehension of the evil of sin, with the power- 
 fully healing balm of divine grace, given pre- 
 eminently in answer to the ' prayer of faith,' 
 prepared him and his family for such a mani- 
 festation of piety as I do not recollect ever to 
 have witnessed. 
 
 "A few days afterwards, returning from the 
 conference, expecting on entering his dwelling 
 to enter a cloud ' whose darkness might be felt/ 
 what was my surprise to find it a true dwelling 
 of an Israelite, 'all light within. 1 The dark- 
 ness was outside ; here they all walked in the 
 light of the Lord, and all tears were wiped 
 from every eye. I beheld, and was edified. I 
 wondered, and shall never forget. Mr. Bud- 
 gett not only murmured not, but was ceaseless 
 in praises that he and his family had been dealt 
 with so mercifully. I knew how he loved his 
 son, and what he expected from him." 
 
 " We are yet, though suffering under a most 
 painful bereavement, a happy family," Mr. 
 Budgett himself says ; "yes, the peace of God, 
 that passeth all human understanding, does
 
 HAPPY ENDING. 113 
 
 keep our hearts and minds through faith in 
 Jesus Christ. It would be impossible to tell 
 you how precious Christ is to us in this time of 
 severe trial. "We have this morning enjoyed a 
 gracious visitation from our heavenly Father, 
 while we all, the whole family, knelt and prayed 
 that this stroke might be fully sanctified." 
 
 Thus was gladness put into his heart "more 
 than in the time that his corn and his wine 
 increased." 
 
 But the separation between the father and 
 son was not to be measured by years. In a 
 little more than a year, the shadow of death 
 again crept over this household. We would 
 stay its progress, and pray for the continuance 
 of such a life; but our times are in His hand 
 who killeth and maketh alive, who woundeth 
 and healeth. 
 
 In November of 1850, Mr. Budgett's health 
 began to decline; for some months disease 
 sk>wly but surely crept into, and fastened itself 
 upon his once vigorous and stout frame. It 
 was dropsy. "Week by week, and day by day, 
 he failed. Though its progress was sometimes 
 slackened, it was never stopped. The winter 
 he passed without much physical suffering, and
 
 114 NO PAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 he welcomed once more the opening beauties 
 of the spring, but he was then hastening to a 
 spring of immortal green. 
 
 "When I look round on my family and the 
 church, I feel as if life would still be a blessing," 
 says the sick merchant. "I am not one of those 
 who are weary of the world, nor do I feel any 
 sympathy with such ; but when I look at my- 
 self as an individual, I feel T t were better to go. 
 
 ut There is my house, my portion fair, 
 My treasure and my heart are there, 
 And my abiding home/ 
 
 "But I did not feel like this at the beginning 
 of my sickness ; then I felt my own unfaithful- 
 ness had been so great, I wished to be spared a 
 few years longer, that I might better prepare 
 for heaven ; but I have been led to see I could 
 do nothing to merit heaven. 
 
 "'In my hand BO price I bring, 
 Simply to thy cross, I cling.' 
 
 I trust now in the merits of my Saviour, in 
 his atoning blood. I feel that it is not by 
 works of righteousness which we have done, 
 but of his mercy hath he saved us. n 
 
 "I have passed a pleasant night, but feel 
 myself getting weaker," he again says. "My
 
 HAPPY ENDING. 115 
 
 stay on earth will be short. I shall soon ar- 
 rive at home It gives me great pleasure to 
 think we shall be an unbroken family in heaven. 
 My father's family are many of them gone ; 
 the rest are on the way. A part of my own 
 family are in heaven. Oh, how thin does the 
 veil now appear which separates earth from 
 heaven." 
 
 Are his worldly affairs in order? 
 
 " I have not a paper to sign, not a shilling 
 to give away, not a book but any one may un- 
 derstand in ten minutes," he answers. " I feel 
 as if I were a poor sinner, saved through my 
 dear mother's prayers, the prayers of my friends, 
 and my own poor feeble prayers offered through 
 Christ. He cannot cast me off, but has gently 
 guided me through the wilderness, and is keep- 
 ing me there till I am perfected through suf- 
 fering." 
 
 " In the vigor of life, how hard to bring our 
 minds to believe we must suffer. But the Lord 
 has brought me to a death-bed, and I this day," 
 he says, with a sweet trust, " hang like a little 
 child in a brook, catching hold of a branch 
 that is thrown out to save it, only there is this 
 one difference in my case : I hang upon the
 
 116 NO PAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 branch of Jesse's stem. Christ will keep me. I 
 am safe." 
 
 " Do you feel that your heavenly Father can 
 make you enjoy affliction?". asked a friend by 
 his bedside. 
 
 " O yes ; I do now," expresses the ripening 
 saint. "I don't feel myself like a sick man; 
 I feel that I am luxuriating in God's presence. 
 The room seems filled with God. So calm, so 
 beautiful." Then did he unconsciously slide 
 into prayer : " Lord, I am thine ; thou art mine. 
 I have made a covenant with thee ; I would 
 not break it for a thousand worlds. Lord, 
 keep me, baptize me anew ; help me to rejoice 
 more fully in thee. 
 
 " Jesus, my great High-priest, 
 
 Offered his blood, and died ; 
 My guilty conscience seeks 
 
 No sacrifice beside. 
 His powerful blood did once atone, 
 And now it pleads before the throne." 
 
 Talking one day with the young wife of his 
 son James : " I should like to have lived a lit- 
 tle longer for your sake. Sometimes I feel as 
 if I should like to look forward and trace your 
 course through life. But I can, and do com-
 
 HAPPY ENDING. 117 
 
 mend you to the care of our heavenly Father. 
 He will guide you aright. Oh, 'in all your 
 ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your 
 steps.'" Looking earnestly at her, he said, 
 '"Let your eye be single, then your body shall 
 be full of light :' mind, keep a single eye ; in all 
 the events of life, keep a single eye." 
 
 "You are entering life under very different 
 circumstances with regard to temporal things, 
 from what I did," he said to his son William, 
 one day ; " pursue the same course that I have 
 done, and your way is made ; but let there be 
 this difference : where I have followed trifles, 
 you follow the dictates of the Spirit ; wherein 
 I have followed my senses, you cleave close to 
 God, and all will be well. I can't say with 
 the apostle, 'I have fought a good fight,' for I 
 have not. I have been unfaithful, but there is 
 atonement through Jesus. I can say, I have 
 almost ' finished my course ;' henceforth there is 
 laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which 
 the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at 
 that day." 
 
 On being told, after an evening service, how 
 fervently he had been prayed for, "Oh," he 
 said, "they will not have to pray for me again ;
 
 118 NO PAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 before another month goes round, I shall be in 
 a better country." 
 
 "How delightful," remarked a friend near, 
 " is the thought that you will so soon be there. 
 There you will have a harp of gold, be clothed 
 in white raiment, and have a crown upon your 
 head." 
 
 "Yes," responded the dying saint, "I like to 
 hear of the beauties of heaven, but I do not 
 dwell upon them ; no, what I rejoice in is, that 
 Christ will be there. Where he is, there shall I 
 also be. I know that he is in me, and I in him. 
 I shall see him as he is ; I delight in knowing 
 that." 
 
 On Sunday, April 20, the communion was 
 administered to him ; and he ate the bread 
 and drank the wine of the new covenant for 
 the last time with his family on earth. It was 
 a day of holy solemnities, and a foretaste of 
 heavenly blessedness. 
 
 "This is the happiest day of my life," he 
 whispered, as it drew to a close ; " the happiest 
 hour. I am ready to go this moment, or ready 
 to stay. Oh, how would I preach, if I could 
 preach now 1" 
 
 "He bade his ministers an affectionate fare-
 
 HAPPY ENDING. 119 
 
 well," so writes a friend who was with him ; 
 and on one of them repeating the lines, 
 
 " I the chief of sinners am, 
 But Jesus died for me," 
 
 he fervently responded to the sentiment, and 
 added, "I never asked for joy; I always 
 thought myself unworthy of it; but he has 
 given me more than I asked." 
 
 " He giveth exceeding abundantly, above all 
 we ask or think," said one. 
 
 "Thank God, thank God," ejaculated the 
 dying believer. After the ministers retired, he 
 requested another hymn might be sung. On 
 Edwin's favorite being selected, " How happy 
 every child of grace," he said, " Yes ; and Ed- 
 win will join us." He united most heartily in 
 the singing, and desired another hymn, when 
 it was thought too much excitement might hurt 
 him. 
 
 " Oh, no," he said ; " nothing will hurt me 
 now, I am going home ; nothing can hurt me 
 now." 
 
 He lingered a week longer in close and 
 delightful communion with his Lord, ready to 
 abide his will, and then went home to the Be- 
 loved of his soul.
 
 120 NO PAINS, NO GAINS. 
 
 Samuel Budget! died April, 1851, aged 57. 
 
 His family lost a father whom they delighted 
 to honor ; Kingswood Hill, a godly neighbor, - 
 and a generous friend ; Bristol, a princely mer- 
 chant ; the church of Christ, a shining member ; 
 England, a Christian citizen ; but the world 
 has found a new evangelist, who shall go forth 
 in her highways and by-ways, to the shop and 
 the counting-room, to the master and his men, 
 to the poor and the rich, to preach, by his ex- 
 ample, with no common power, the duty of 
 laboring for Christ as the great Bibk law of 
 increase in temporal, moral, and spiritual good. 
 
 " The hand of the diligent maketh rich." 
 
 " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it 
 with thy might." 
 
 " Strive to enter in at the strait gate ; for 
 many shall seek to enter in, and shall not be 
 able." 
 
 " Work out your own salvation with fear and 
 trembling ; for it is God who worketh in you, 
 to will and to do of his own good pleasure."
 
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