"Remember that Money is of a prolific generating Nature. Money can beget Money, and its Off spring can beget more; and so on. Five Shillings turned, is Six turned again, 'tis Seven and Three Pence; and so on till it becomes an hundred Pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every Turning; so that the Profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding Sow, destroys all her Off-spring to the thousandth Generation. He that murders a Crown, destroys all it might have produced, even Scores of Pounds."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.
Benjamin Franklin was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement. He is notable as the early and lifelong mentor of Daniel Sommer, whose support of the 1889 Sand Creek Declaration set in motion events which led to the formal division of the Churches of Christ from the Disciples of Christ in 1906.
According to contemporary biographies "His early religious training was according to the Methodist faith, though he never belonged to any church until he united with the Disciples."
In 1856, Franklin began to publish the ultra-conservative American Christian Review, which he published until his death in 1878. Its influence, initially considerable, was said to have waned following the American Civil War. Franklin undertook a rigorous program of publication correspondence, and traveling lectures which took him to "many" U. S. states and Canada.
Franklin's last move was to Anderson, Indiana, where he lived from 1864 until his death.
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