The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-10-20
True Wealth.

True w GalGhs
"God made man, aud man made
money" and yet how many of US forget
the Creator in foolish love of what men
call treasure! The American idea seems
to be that the chief end of man is to
make and lay up money. When a rich
man dies people tell each other how
much money OF property he owned;
fathers hold him up as an example for
their sons, and the fact that he has made
money and died worth fortune is set
down as something for which his mem
DRY should be cherished. A man may
spend his life in working for the welfare
OF Others-he may be possessed of
large, warm, generous heart and soul
in full harmony with all good and beau
tiful things-he may be honorable and
upright in all his dealings, striving ever
to do unto others as he would have
others do to him." but if he happens to
die poor, the verdict of the public is apt
to be; well, he was a clever fellow,
but not much account" Our lives are
but short in this world, and if money
could purchase fellow a through tick
ct to a safe place in Kingdom Come
there would be some sense in spending
them in fierce struggle for wealth. IL
the richest man ON earth had sure
promise of the highest seat in heaven
then perhaps men might struggle and
toll and starve themselves and their |
families in order to lay up wealth. If
the possession of money had tendency
to make men better and nobler and pu-
rer, then they might reasonably crave it |
and toll for it to the last day of their |
existence. But this is not the case. The
good book tells us plainly, sit is as hard |
for a rich man to go to heaven as it is
for camel to go through the eye of a |
needle" With this statement before |
us is it not strange what great number
Of people are trying to make camels of !
themselves?
After all, the really sensible man is
the one who desires money because he
can use it in doing good. He who works
for money to use in his own improve |
building up and advancing the
cause of religion, morality, education |
and human happiness in his own cOun- |
try, is the man who docs his duty and I
the one who VIII receive the blessing. |
Poverty is a hard lot, but the poor man
is not necessarily an unhappy one. If |
he has not set his heart upon the ''Gold- /
en- calf, " his life may be cheerful and /
useful. The truth is a poor, laboring
man, with big, warm heart in his
breast. working bravely and fearlessly |
the world cheerfuI1y meeting |
the duties of each day as they come up, |
trusting in God to take care of the fu-
ture, aud relying on his own manhood
for the present is as noble a specimen
of humanity as you ever meet. He has |
the promise that seed7time and harvest /
shall never cease, and he does not feel !
that ''by the sweat of thy brow shalt |
thou eat bread is very grievous curse
after all.
1t Is the duty of all men to be econom- !
ical and prudent, temperate in all things,
but at the Same time he should guard |
well the line between economy and par
simony, between prudence and meau-
ness.
1t does seem to us that the father who
can turn his son out at twenty-one years |
of age with a thorough education, with |
a brain well deve loPed, with a mind |
trained to habits of thought and investi- |
CATION, with a moral nature fortified |
against all the evil influences of society, |
good and bad, with habits of personal |
industry, with proud ambition to be
useful and to make an honorable name I
in the world, leaves his son a nobler in
heritaHce than he who gives his boy a |
hundred thousand dollars in gold. Edu- /
cation is what we human beings need
The education Of the moral, intellectual,
social and physical being-that training
which will fill the country it'll prouder,
1obler, better men and women shat
training which viii enable US to despise
he mere dross of the sensual earth, and
% love and strive only for the rich jew
lis of cultivated minds, pure morals, and
proud ambition TO be noble, generous
md good. Our people-we mean the
people of the SoutlILhaye had a lesson
rom which they should draw great ben
fit for their children. The war closed
for US, and left us very poor.
This poverty had quite a different effect
lpon different individuals. Those men
md women who had been properly edu-
:ated, who had been taught to rely upon
themselves, and to work when it was
to do so, accepted the change
n their circumstances with quiet cheer
murmurs, no repinings were
leard from them The other class
hose who had been taught that wealth
vas respectability-that the rich man
vas the honorable man-were and are in
pitiable condition. The lesson we
hOuld learn from all this is: Education
) better than money. Learning Is some
hing which cannot be taken from your
hildren. 1t is an investment from which
hey can draw more than ten per cent.
interest as long as they live in this world,
nd from which they Will draw an ever
lsting fund of happiness and love in the
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