The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-07-16

main achievements of his life.
He was good man-his name was
upon the silver plate upon the pew door
of velvet cushioned church.
lie was a benevolent man-for every
thousand dollars which he wrung form
the tenants of his courts, or from the
debtors who writhed beneath his heels,
he gave ten dollars to some benevolent
institution.
And now he is dying man-see! AS
he sits upon the bed Of death, with the
dollar in his clcnch, hand
O! holy dollar, object of his lifelong
pursuit, what comfort hast thou for him
now in his pain of death?
At length the dying man revived and
1dictated his will. 1t was strange to see
the mother and son, and lawyer mutter-
ing, and sometimes wrinkling, beside the
bead of death. All the while the testa-
tor clutched the dollar in his right hand.
While the will was being made, the
preacher came-even he who held the
pastoral charge of the great church,
whose pew doors bore sanity names. on
silver plates, and whose seats on Sabbath
day groaned beneath the weight of res
pectability, broadcloth, and satin.
He came and said his prayers-deco-
rously and in measured words, but never
once did the dying man relax his hold Of
the dollar.
Cant you see I'm going?" at length
said the rich man, turning frightful look
toward the preacher.
The preacher, whose cravat was of the
whitest, took book with golden clasp
from marble table. And he read:
"And | say unto you, tits easier for
camel to go through the eye of needle
than for rich man to enter the kingdom
of Cod
"Who said these words-who-who?
family shrieked the dying man, shaking
the hand which clinched the dollar, at
the preachers head.
The preacher hastily turned over the
leaf and did not reply.
"Why did you never tell me Of this be
fore? Why did you never preach from
it as I sat in your CHURCH. Why-why?'
The preacher did not reply, but turned
over another leaf But the dying man
would not be quieted:
"And it is easier for a c1mel to go
through the eye Of a needle than for q
rich man to enter the. kingdom of God, is
lit? Then what 8 to become of me? Am
not rich? Whnt tenant did ever
spare, what debtor did l, ever released
And you stood up Sunday after Sunday
and preached to US, and never said one
word about the camel"
The preacher, in search of a consoling
passage, turned rapidly over the leaves,
and in his confusion came to this passage
which he read:
.sGo to now, ye rich men, weep and
howl for your miseries that shall come
upon you. Your gold AID silver is can
kered, and the rest of them shall be a
witness against you, and shall eat your
flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped
treasure together for the last days. Be-
ho,d, the hire Of the laborers who have
reaped down your fields, which is of what
you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the
cries of them which have reaped are en-
tered into the ears Of the Lord of Sab
bath!"
"And yet never preached that to me?'
shrieked the dying man.
The preacher, who had blundered
through the passage from James, which
we have quoted, knew not what to say
He was perehance, terrified by the very
dying look of his parishoner. Then the
wife drew near and strove to comfort him,
and the son (who had been reading the
willy attempted word or two of consola-
Ition.
And with the dollar in his hand lie
sank into death, talking of stock, of rent,
of copper mine, and camel of tenant and
of debtor, until the breath left his lips
THUS he died.
When he was cold the preacher rose
and asked the lawyer whether the de-
ceased had left anything to such and
such charitable society, which Lad beer
ingraftcd upon the preachers church.
And the wife closed his eyes and trIet
to wrench the dollar from his band, bu
in vain. He clutched it as though i
were the only savior to light him through
the darkness Of eternity.
And the sun sat down with dry eyes
and thought of the hundreds of thousand
| which were now his own.
i Next day there was hearse followed
: by train of carriages nearly mile il
t length. There was a crowd around al
e open grave, and the elegant sermon upol
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