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PENNY-WISE-AND-POUND-FOOLISH, AND MR.
GET-I'-THE-HUNDRED-AND-LOSE-I'-THE-SHIRE 'For, what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?'--_Our Lord_.
This whole world is the penny, and our own souls are the pound.

This whole world is the hundred, while heaven itself is the shire.

And the question this evening is, Are we wise in the penny and foolish in the pound?
And, are we getting in the hundred and losing in the shire?
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Well, then, to begin at the beginning, we are already begun to be penny-wise and pound-foolish with our children when we are so particular with them about their saying their little prayers night and morning, while all the time we are so inattentive and so indolent to explain to them how they are to pray, what they are to pray for, and how they are to wait and how long they are to wait for the things they pray for.