The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-17
Some Things Money Can't Buy.
BY REV. R. W. LOwRIE.

By REV. X. w. LONRlE-
Some boys and girls have an idea that
money can do almost anything but this
is a mistake. Money, it is true, can do a
great deal, but it can not do everything.
could name YOU thousand things it can
not buy. 1t was meant for good, and it is a
good thing to have, but all this depends on
how it is used. If used wrongly, it is an in
jury, rather than benefit. Beyond all
doubt, however, there are many things bet
ter than it is, and which it can not purchase,
no matter how much we may have of it.
IF a man have not good education, all
his money will never buy it for him. He
can scarcely ever make up for his early
waste of opportunities. He may say, as
have heard of men saying: 81 would give
all have if fhad only had good educa-
tion and well-trained mind;" but he will
say it In vain. His money alone can't OBJ
tain it.
Neither will wealth itself give man, or
a woman, good manners. Nothing, next to
good morals and good health, is of more
Importance than easy, graceful, selfpossessed
manners Bus they can't be had for mere
money.
A man who is what is called "shoddy,"
who has not taste and correct manners, will
never buy them-though he would, no
doubt, ike to They are not to be had in
the market. They are nowhere Tor sale
You might as well try to buy sky, or cloud,
or sunbeams.
Money can't purchase good conscience.
If poor man, or boy or girl-any one
has clear conscience, that gives off tone
like the sound bell when touched by the
hammer, why, bless you, he is vastly richer
than the millionaire who does not possess
such conscience. Good principles are bet
ter than gold. All the gold of Golconda
couldn't buy them for a man who hasn't
them already.
Money is very much sought after, and it
can command great deal of comfort. But
it is very wrong and very incorrect to speak
of money as The Almighty Dollar-that is,
if we do SO in really serious way. The
dollar is not omnipOtent. 1t is mighty. but
not almighty. There are thousands of
things which it can not accomplish.
During the Revolutionary War British
officer offered large bribe to an American
General. The General looked him in the
face and told him that his royal master in
England had not enough money in all his
kingdom to pay him to do the mean thing
he was wanted TO do.
And there have been, and are, thousands
of such men-men whom no amount of
money could buy. Money is not almighty.
1t may fill our houses with fine pictures,
but it can not alone give us a true appreci-
alton Of them. 1t may take us abroad to
see foreign sights, but it can not give us
true taste about them. 1t may buy us an
entrance into better society than we are
used to, but can never, of itself, purchase
ease of manner and fine power of conversa-
ton, and all those things that come from
other and higher sources than O pocket
book.
Thousands and thousands of glorious
things are beyond the reach of the hand of
gold And the beauty of it is that if riches
should take to themselves wings and fly
away, why all these better things, as they
do not come from wealth, do not disappear
with it. There Il, then, murxci, and q
wide one, in which money has no recog-
nized value-the market of intellectual,
spiritual and other high and holy things.
Use the Bride.
A bride is very necessary in guiding and
restraining an unruly horse; and it is very
needful in controlling that unruly member
the tongue. "Don't go without the bride
boys" was my grandfather's favorite bit OF
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swearing, or given to much vain ard fool
ish talk, he would say, "That man has lost
his bridle." Without bride the tongue
though little member, "boasteth great
things" 1t is an unruly member, ''full Of
deadly poison" Put bride on it and it il
one of the best servants body and soul car
have. 81 will keep my mouth with bri.
de-" said King David. Be sure and keep &
bride on your appetite. Don't let it BE-
your master, and don't neglect TO have one
for your passions, or they will get unnian.
ageable, driving you down headione
course to ruin. / mean the the bride o
self-government. Coed parents try to train
and restrain their children; and you car
generally tell by the children's beha
vior whether they have wise and faithful
parents But parents can not do every
thing; boys and girls must have their owr
brides; they must learn to check and gov
ern themselves Sef-governnent Is Thu