Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-13

| ponds also upon the nature OF the work.
The winter palace had no value in itself;
its walls furnished no protection, its roof
no shelter. 1t was not adapted to human
needs. The recorded name was not a
memento of great deeds nobly done, but
the within of an idle hour. Measured by
this standard what is the labor of life
which promises the truest success?
The possession of riches seems to most
men the Ultima Thule, the very acme of
earthly good, to be sought after more
eagarly than Ponce de Leon sought for
the tabled fountain of youth. For it,
men slave and scheme, and cheat and lie,
blight all the good impulses of their
hearts and stake their all for life and
eternity to win it. What intrinsic value
is there in money that its possession should
be considered great success? 1t can
give man houses and lands, troops of
fawning, summer friends, feasting and
pleasure, and certain fame. 1t can
give ease and all the appliances of lux
ury, but all its gifts are confined to this
world and to time. Beyond these limits
money has no influence.
"There is no pocket in shroud,'' is an
old but true saying. No one believes
that money will have any worth in eter-
nity-that riches will do their owners
any good in the hereafter. If, then, the
duration of a moneyed success is limited
to time, to a period of a few years at
most, and so uncertain that any hour
may end it, will it pay man to ex-
change time for money? If riches cannot
buy OFF death, or rob the grave Of its
ghastllness or gloom, or secure
welcome and a home in the world to
come, will 1t pay man to invest every
| thing in gold?
Can anything be called success that
touches no deeper than this, that has no
surer returns than such transitory gains
as these2 Is there nothing better in life
than this, no chance to invest in eternal
values, no way by which the work of
this wsrld can find reward in the next?
If there be any. riches here that can be
laid up for use when time is no more,
any treasures that win survive the
destruction of death, is not he the success
full man who, though by great labor and
self gathers them? clay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven" said the
Savior. AS men toll and plan to make
money, so must they watch and labor to
gain heavenly riches. The hands must
be clean, the heart pure, the thoughts
charitable, the acts kind and true of him
who invests in eternal securities. No
man can heap up earthly money with one
hand and heavenly with the other, All
things must be counted as dross if he
would gain successful entrance to the
home of many mansions.
The true test of q successful
life will be given when "the
small and great shall stand before God.'
Before the searching eye of that judge
the secrets of all hearts and lives will be
revealed. The rent roll, bank stock and
real estate will be worth nothing there;
only purity, truth, charity, pity and faith
will have any value. Every one will
stand alone to give his account. How
priceless then will be the cup of cold
water given in Christ's name, how invalu-
able the strength born of resisting tempta-
ton, the peace resulting from trust in
God. Then will mankind know who is
he "that maketh himself rich, yet hath
nothing; who maketh himself poor, vet
hath great riches"