I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel
rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I
have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it
does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the
responsibility of taking charge of the Lord's silver and gold.
Let us be thankful for what we have not, as well as for what we
have!
Freedom to live one's life truly is surely more desirable than
any earthly acquisition or possession; and at my new work I had
hours of freedom every day. I never went back again to the
bondage of machinery and a working-day thirteen hours long.
The daughter of one of our neighbors, who also went to the same
church with us, told me of a vacant place in the cloth-room,
where she was, which I gladly secured. This was a low brick
building next the counting- room, and a little apart from the
mills, where the cloth was folded, stamped, and baled for the
market.
There were only half a dozen girls of us, who measured the cloth,
and kept an account of the pieces baled, and their length in
yards.
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