This English version was translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The Chinese text is authoritative.
From time to time parents ask me how to educate their children. After seeing the results of this study, you will know that the teaching of the sages is the most basic and best education. The teaching of the sages in ancient China and the term that comes to us from the West, faith, achieve the same effect by different means.
In 1900 the American scholar A. E. Winship made a study comparing two families of the same era: one was that of the Christian Edwards, the other that of Max Jukes, a famous master of atheism. He traced their descendants over nearly two hundred years and wrote the book Jukes-Edwards. It is said that the atheist Max Jukes once said to Edwards: “The Jesus you believe in, I will never believe in!”
The Edwards family
Number of people: 1,394, including 100 university professors, 14 university presidents, 70 lawyers, 30 judges, 60 doctors, 60 writers, 300 clergymen and theologians, 3 members of Congress and one vice president.
The Max Jukes family
Total number of people: 903, including 310 vagrants, 130 who served more than 13 years in prison, 7 murderers, 100 drunkards, 60 thieves, 190 prostitutes and 20 merchants, 10 of whom learned their trade in prison.
Two seeds behind faith
The greatness of time is that it can bear witness to all that is true and all that is vain! There are no accidents in this world.
Many people find it hard to understand why, after a hundred years, there was such a great difference in outcome. The real key is that, because of Edwards, the Edwards family gained the power of faith.
Behind their faith, they planted two important seeds:
The first seed planted was the seed of turning toward goodness and love. That is why their family produced so many doctors, professors and university presidents.
The second seed planted was the seed of reverence. Children who come from such a family will always remember that three feet above one’s head there are gods.
I wonder if you have noticed why the Max Jukes family had so many vagrants, thieves and prostitutes. It is because reverence was lacking in the education of such a family.
In an education without reverence, their inner monologue is: What is the Old Man in Heaven? I am the greatest, there is nothing I dare not do…
These two families over a hundred years let us feel the enormous power of faith and love. So in the relationship with money there is a law: faith is the road that connects to energy!
