I soon resolved it into these propositions: When a laborer dies his little children are scattered to the winds.
Brothers and sisters may never see one another again.
When a man with property dies, his children are kept together.

Their future is made safe by the property.
Labor provides for to-day.

Property provides for to-morrow.
That truth was driven into my mind when I saw one family after another scattered by the death of a laborer.

A merchant in Sharon died, and his children, after the funeral, kept right on going to school.

There was no doubting the truth of my rule: Labor makes the present day safe--but the present day only.