A man looks and he sees a name. He doesn’t like that name. That name represents to him the men who tried to dethrone his father, to make him walk in the gutter, and robbed him, in this man’s eye, of all he possessed. Instead of seeing the man’s name, he saw his father’s name, which happens to be his name, and so he saw his father’s name implying ownership of that building. Didn’t have a nickel…did it for two years…planting the seed until there was complete acceptance. In the interval, that firm went broke and the building is up for sale. The day of the sale, with no money at all, not a penny, a stranger comes into the building. A stranger in the sense he was never in this man’s home for a cup of tea and he said to him, kiddingly, knowing he didn’t have any money, he said, “Are you going to buy the building?” He said, “With what?” Well, he said, “Would you like to buy it?” He said, “I’d love it.” Well, he said, “I have money. I’ve been watching you and your father and you’re hard workers and honest people, and so, I have money. It gives me nothing in the bank. Are you willing to give me just a note—no collateral because you don’t have it—give me just your signature and your father’s signature with a promise to pay six percent on it and reduce the principal in ten years? Every year it must be reduced; at the end of ten years it must be completely reduced, and you pay me six percent on the remaining monies until completed.” He said yes! That day this man owned the building…didn’t have a nickel…that is 1924.297 ¶29