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PERSONAL FROM
Here's Your Best
Assurance
of Holding aJob
S
OME
of our readers are sti ll
in danger of losing their jobs or having
their salaries cut even in this economic
upturn.
Right now business analysts are reasonably
confident that sustained but moderate growth
will be continuing at least in the short period
for the U.S. and a number of her trading
allies.
Few realize that there are certain economic
LA
ws
in motion that regulate business conditions.
1 remember vividly the sudden nose dive
depression of 1920. 1 was then a publishers'
representative in Chicago. 1 was a member of the
Chicago Association of Commerce, through its
Advertising Club division.
In early January that year, at the regular midweek
Association of Commerce luncheon, in the Carneo
Room of the Morrison Hotel, the noted business
analyst, Roger Babson, was the speaker. He warned
the businessmen of Chicago that within less than a
year we were going to crash into the most drastic
depression our generation had seen.
1 noticed sorne important bankers and security
brokers smile knowingly in disagreement. They were
sure M
r.
Babson was wrong.
A year later Mr. Babson was again the speaker at
the same Association luncheon.
" 1 saw sorne of you businessmen smi le, a year
Oct ober 1983
ago, when I ·
~arned
you of the coming economic
tragedy," he said. "Now Jet me tell you
WHY
1
knew what was coming, and you didn't. When
you want to know what js the temperature in the
room, now, you look at the thermometer on the
waJI.· But if you want to know what the
temperature
will be,
an hour or two from now,
the thermometer can
't
tell you. You go down to
the boÚer ro"om, or consult the U.S. Weather
Bureau. You look to the factors that
determine
conditions, not the thermometer that records
conditions after they have occurred.
"You gentlemen looked at charts of current
business activity, at bank clearings, records of
freight car loadings, the stock market
quotations-the thermometers on the wall.
"But," he continued, "there are
LAWS
that
govern
economic conditions. These laws are the
factors that determine what conditions
will be.
a
few months or a year from now. They are the
CAUSES."
Yes, and
your own personal
economic future is
determined by definite
LA
ws!
Very few realize that
the Eterna! Creator set in motion invisible, yet
inexorable
LA
ws,
which regulate personal financia!
conditions!
In my 52 years in God's ministry
1
have seen
these laws
actual/y work
in the experiences of
many people whom I have known personally. I
have experienced their relentless working
in my
own lije!
1 had to learn this lesson
the hard way,
myself!
1 have often mentioned in articles in
The Plain
Truth
how God struck me down, not physically, but
economícal/y,
to bring me to him. That very
depression of 1920 destroyed my business.
Everything 1 touched turned
not
to gold like "King
Midas," but to loss of and lack of money. It was in
poverty and hunger that God actually
conquered
me,
and tu rned me to him, giving my life to him, over
56 years ago.
But even after conversion-even after my
ordination as a minister of J esus Christ in
1931--our family was still on the economic rocks.
had begun to learn something about God's law of
tithing, as a Bible
doctrine.
I had studied it in the
Bible. I had learned-seen PROVED-that this law