The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-11

~ Haste 10 inconsistent with S"S
training by which men know ho.v
to keep, how to manage, how to use |
riches. Therefore it is (when we
come to the philosophy Of the mat
teri that lottery luck is always |
bad luck. The only men that do |
we'll with lottery tickets are the
men that do not draw ANYTHING.
They are always luckey. s.
Property which is earned-not
suddenly gained-in the hands of
men, is notap to be lost. You will see
that this is SO if you look around
you. There may be apparent ex-
ception; but as general rule you
will find that property got hastily
never stays. One of two things
takes place: either it does not re-
main, or else it remains like the
poisoned shirt of Nesaus, that con-
sumes life, OF therust that, as James
says. eats like canker. I have
known men that would have been
glad to get rid Of their money, hav
ing gotit badly, but they could not;
and it remained to torment them.
Money gained in wrong ways either
! goes quicker, stays to torment the
owner, or damns the children. I'm
just gains are Gods Eghtnings and
thunders. They blast, they curse,
! they destroy men.
/ do not believe that anything
unjustly obtained lasts or does any
! body any good; and it seems to me
that, as I have already said, if men
could be persuaded OF this, tempta
ton would lose half its force But
until we have men believing it who
are in other respects men Of integ
rity and Influence, how can we have
a public sentiment that will give
power to such doctrine?
Haste to be rich perverts the
moral Judgment Of men us to the
Importance of riches to happiness.
I do not wish to say that wealth is
of no account. / believe it is of
great account, But I most firmly
believe that while it is of essential
service to communities, individuals
can live and be very happy
without being rich. I believe that
| it is in the power of man to live in
his higher sentiments in such a
way that he shall be a thousand times
happier than he would be if lie were
. wealthy.
Hear what the Bible says: lhave
not picked out half the passages
but 1 will read one or two of them.
Faithful old Book! Wise old Book!
Book full of life and human nature!
When men have done talking about
the historical evidence of the Bible,
and the inspiration Of The Bible,
and all that sort of thing, lei
them waste it away till they come
down to the substance. Itell you
the substantial record of the Bible
would stand if there were no in
spiration; if there were no revela
ton; if there were no church; il
there we're nothing else but the fac
tuality of the scripture. Its essen
tial agreement with the great e]e
ments of truth in man and human
life are such that it would stand
alone without any backing.
In the Goth chapter Of Proven bi
it says: s'An inheritance may bt
gathered hastily at the beginning,
but at the end thereof shall not b.
blessed" Amen to that!
In the 21st chapter it says, eth
thoughts of the diligent tend only t.
Righteousness that is the drift
the natural tendency Of their cours
es; ''but of every one that is hast,
only to want that is their thought
and plans run right to want. Yo1
say that there is no humor in tn
Bible. jeremiah, who is not sup
posed to have been a humorou
writer. says: ''As partridge sittetl
on her eggs and hatcheth them not
1.-The eggs being added from, tli
beginning, and she not knowing il
| but sitting, and sitting, and sittinI
on them-''As a partridge stitch o.
eggs and hatcheth them not, so j
he that getteth riches, and not b
right, shall leave them in the mids
of his days, and in the end shall b
, a fool Riches under a ma.
that has got them fraudulently
jeremiah says, are like rotten part
, ridge eggs. / think SO too. The
stink-if you will excuse the e1
! preston. The dehcacy of moder
, days is becoming SO great that b
3 and by it will be impossible to rea
Z the Bible.
There is another little passag
in Proverbs to which I will call you
attention. It is an account of til
. naming of a man daughters. 9Th
!, horee leech hath two d ,ughters
And what are their names. = &C
the first one Give And of IL
: next one, whste Give In on
translation it is. 1.-THE horse leec
? hath two daughters, crying .'Giv
! give It is 10 such thing. It
: an account of the way he names b
Z childIen. Now, a horse leech 70
know, sucks blood; fastening himse
!, on some creature. man or beast,
I I sucks and swells, and swells an
l sucks, until he actually bursts, n.
? knowing when he has got enoug
l --.fr e..
= And every one of his children ",
so near like him that when Il
first was born he called it "Givt
: and when the next was born he ca
= ed that s'Give;' and If he had hs
= forty daughters, they all would ha,
= hoon oollod .kGir,o =, Axan,.- .,o n,,,&