The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-06

power, Honor and truth and justice
can not go so high up in authority as
to be beyond the range of human as
sault. The pure and the good in all
ages have been execrated by the mob
who cry out: Not this man, but Bara-
bas. Now, Barabas was a rObber." By
patriotic devotion, by honesty, by Chris
tian principle 1 would have you, my
hearers, seek for the favor and the
confidence of your fellOw-men; but do
not look upon some high position in
society as though that were always sun
shine. The mountains of earthly honor
are like the mountains of Switzerland,
covered with perpetual ice and snow.
Having obtained the confidence and
the love of your associates, be content
with such things as you have. You
brought nothing into this world, and it
is very certain you can carry nothing
out. Cease ye from man whose breath
is in his nOstrils. There is an honor
that is worth possessing, but it is honor
that comes from God. This day rise up
and take it. Behold what manner of
love the Father hath bestowed upon us
that we should be called the sons of
God! Who aspires not for that royalty?
Come now and be kings and priests unto
God and the Lamb forever.
Still further l learn from my subject
longing. The more money man has
the better, If he gets it honestly and
uses it lawfully. The whole teaching
of the Word of God has a tendency to
create those kinds of habits and that
kind of mental acumen which leads on
to riches. A man who talks against
wealth as though it were bad thing is
either knave or fool, not mean
ing what he says, or ignorant of
the glorious uses to which money can
be put. But the man who builds his
is not all wise to put it in the faintest
shape. To say that Solomon was mil
liOnaire gives but very imperfect idea
of the property he inherited from David
his father. He had at his command
gold to the value of 50, ,400,O0O,0OO, and
he had silver to the value of So, ,145, 1885,
600. The Queen of Sheba made him
nice little present of $3,6O0,0O0, and
Hiram made him present of the same
amount. If he had lost the value of
whole realm out of his pocket IL would
stOOp down and pick it up; and yet with
all that affluence, he writes the words
of my text: Vanity of vanities; all is
vanity" Alas! if that man could not
find in all his worldly possessions
enough to satisfy his immortal soul, no
amount that you and 1 will ever gather
by the sweat of our brow, or by the
strength of our arm, will make us
happy. l have been amused to hear
people, when they start in life, say at
what point in life they will be content
ed with worldly possessions. One man
says, ''I want to get $4,000 and will
be satisfied" Another, 81 want to get
$4,000 or 100000 or $1OOO,OOO, and
then | will be entirely satisfied. Then
l will say to my soul, Now, just look at
that block of stOre-hOuses. Just look at
those Government securities. Just look
at those bonds and mortgages. Just
look what lucrative investments you
have. Now, my soul, take thine ease,
eat, drink and be merTyP"
Thou fool! If you are not happy now
with the smaller possessions, you will
never be with the larger possessions.
If with decent and cOmely apparel you
are not grateful to God, you would be
ungrateful if you had Princes ward
robe crowded till the hinges burst. If
you sat this morning at your table and
the fare was so poor you complained,
you would not be satisfied though you
sat down to partridge and pineapple.
If you are not content with an income
to support comfortably your household,
you would not be cOntented though
100000 year. 1t is not what we get,
it is what we are that makes us happy
or miserable. If that is not so, how do
you account for the fact that many of
those who fare SumptuOuSly every day
are waspish, and dissatisfied, and over
bearing, and fOrebOding, and cranky,
and uncOmpTOmising, with cOunte-
nance in which wrath always lowers,
and a lip which scOrn cuTls, while
many time in the summer evening you
see labOring man going home in his
shirt-sleeves, with pail on his arm,
and pick-aX over his shoulder, his face
bright with smiles and his heart with
hope, and the night of his toll bright
with flaming aurOras? 1t is an illus
tratiOn of the fact that it is not out
ward condition that makes man hap
py. A man came to ROthschild, the
great banker, and said: You must be
a thoroughly happy man." He said:
Happy? Me happy? Happy, when
just as l am going to die man sends
me note, saying If you don't send me
$500 before tomorrow night will blow
your brains OUT Me happy" Oh, l
could by the power of the Lord Almighty
break the infatuatiOn of those men who
are neglecting the present sources of
satisfaction, hoping that there is to be
something in the future for them of a
worldly nature that will satisfy their
souls. The heart right, all is right.
The heart wrong, all is wrong. But l
ask you to higher riches, to crowns that
fade not, to Investments that always de-
clare dividends. Come up this day and get
1.-THE riches of Gods pardon, the
riches of Gods mercy, the riches of
Gods peace. Blessed are all they who
put their trust in Him.
go still further and learn from this
subject that learning and science can
not satisfy the soul. You know that
Solomon was one of the largest contrib
utors to the literature of his day. He
wrote 1,005 songs; he wrote 1900 pro-
verbs. He wrote about almost every
thing. The Bible says distinctly he
wrote about plants. from the cedar of
Lebanon to the hyssOp that grOweth out
of the walls; and about birds and beasts
and fishes. No doubt he put off his royal
robes and put on hunters trappings,
and went out with his arrows to bring
down the rarest specimens of birds, and
then with his fishing apparatus he went
down to the stream to bring up the dem
izens of the deep, and plunged into the
forest and found the rarest specimens
of flowers; and then he came back to
his study and wrote books about zoology,
the science of animals; about ichthy-