Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-10
Making Haste to be Rich.

1t is very suggestive and impressiveact
that all warnings seem to be Intellectual ter
appetite has become excited and the peer
of the will has been weakened by indg-
ence. Too expensive habits of living, agast
the warnings of conscience and the beer
judgments of earlier hours of innoc,ce
and honor, have been formed. The possil-
tiles of sudden wealth have been constaly
dwelt upon and made the subject of earest
desire and study; the growing hungeror
the social position and enjoyments With
wealth brings with it has exasperated he
eager longings to secure it, hushed the woes
of conscience and reason, and destroyedor
demoralized the force of the will. The nm
reaches the point where he is absolutely hp-
less without supernatural interpositn.
The possible and awful ruin before him, ne
indescribable distress and wretchednesDf
his wife and family, the loss of noble nae
and character, the open door of prisonf-
ter public trial-all this is like wispf
straw to hold him back, when he has o,e
fully yielded himself to the power of le
temptation, and dwelt in growing desc
upon the one object for which he must site
everything that is pure and true. st
is fearful thing 10 cultivate within e
heart an absorbing sensual or worldly apr.
tite. This habit of looking upon wealths
the chief object of life, of filling the imaal-
alton with pictures of its comforts, of Sd
ordinating the cultivation of the mind ed
the higher works of charity, humanity ed
religion to the one struggle for wealth, s
perilous in itself to all noble developm,t
and spiritual peace, and is quite sure to l.
foil of tl,at I'd
out the ruin of the mistaken and too ear
aspirant for riches. The modern form
this unwh olesome passion is especially p
ilous. Men are not only persistent to acque
large fortunes, but they are unwilling ,
await the slow progress of honorable gain y
honest toll. They are constantly on To
alert for chance move on the speculate
board which will bring them thousands !,
once. They cannot endure to accumulBt
by economy and daily labor. They despis
the ancient virtues of the fathers. The
want their fortunes in their prime whi
they can, as they say to themselves, enjo
them but they rarely do enjoy them. The
constantly peril everything in order this
they may reach higher goal, goade
on by the same desire that urged them i
the beginning, only a thousand time
stronger for the qualification they have Ell
joyed. 1t is one of the rarest OF all event
that one who has suddenly secured fortun
by some happy speculation retains his wealt
for any considerable period. Our cities an
towns, our poorhouses and insane hospital
and our state prisons, are filled with me
who have hastily and unscrupulously acc,
mulated wealth and as rapidly dissipated i
One of the most important social truths t
be impressed upon our youth until it crysta
Lies into habit and nature, is that of tn
sacred character of the property of othel
entrusted TO their care. 1t is never in an
form to be considered their own, never I
be used as their own, never to be used
any form contrary to the exact requisitior
of the owners. There is n
safety this side of absolute honesty and th
most unqualified scrupulousness in the maj
aging of the property of other people. Th
smallest verge from the line of the trut
will soon lead into the most devious path
and to certain wretchedness.-Zi Herai,