It makes cheerful sacrifices for the present benefit of others; or it submits to voluntary privation for some future good.
Mrs.Inchbald, author of the "Simple Story," was, by dint of thrift, able to set apart the half of her small income for the benefit of her infirm sister.

There was thus about two pounds a week for the maintenance of each.

"Many times," she says, "during the winter, when I was crying with cold, have I said to myself, 'Thank God, my dear sister need not leave her chamber; she will find her fire ready for her each morning; for she is now far less able than I am to endure privation.'" Mrs.Inchbald's family were, for the most part very poor; and she felt it right to support them during their numerous afflictions.

There is one thing that may be say of Benevolence,--that it has never ruined anyone; though selfishness and dissipation have ruined thousands.
The words "Waste not, want not," carved in stone over Sir Walter Scott's kitchen fireplace at Abbotsford, expresses in a few words the secret of Order in the midst of abundance.

Order is most useful in the management of everything,--of a household, of a business, of a manufactory, of an army.