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for treatment as to how wisely he had started going to the church and how unfailing was the advice of the Bible to make one's life really happy. This resulted in increasing the faith of the people both in the scripture and in the religion.
The American writer thus explains how, after a period of 25 years, he was motivated to return to religion on account of this reason. There was also another reason and that was that it is only people who run away from religion that are the ones who have complaints and miseries which they take for solution to another person. For, a really religious man generally does not have to shed tears before outsiders about his personal grievances. A really religious man is always bent upon giving justice to the opposite person and thus rests satisfied,. For this reason he has no reason to complain against the other fellow.
Religious man reconciles his own mind in the following way
(1) He will consider everything from the point of view of the other party.
(2) He will concede the right to the other person to have selfrespect, personal interest and good reputation, like himself.
(3) If the other person is devoted to you and has been rendering service to you, then why should you not tolerate a slight disagreement or unfavourable behaviour from him ?If profit is the aim in your commerce, then you must be prepared to give a little amount by way of commission....
(4) The treatment we get from others will be commensurate with what we deserve and as per
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