The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-07-27

hold what manner Of love the Father
has bestowed upon us that we should bf
called the sons of God. Who aspres
not for that royalty? Come now and be
kings and priests unto God and the Lamb
forever.
Still further ! learn from my subiec,
that worldly wealth can not satisfy the
souls longing. The more money a man
has the better, if he gets it honestly and
uses it lawfully. The whole teaching OF
the word of God has tendency to create
those kinds of habits and that kind OF
mental acumcn which lead on to riches,
= nian who talks against wealth, as though
1t were bad thing is either knave or
n fool, not meaning what he says, or ig,
norant of the glorious uses to which
money can be put. But the man who
builds his souls happiness on earthly
accumulation is not at all wise, to put Il
IN the faintcst shape. To say that Solo.
mon was a millionaire gives bat very
imperfect idea of the property he inner.
itcd from David, his father. He had at
his command gold to the value of 49,.
400, 100000, and he had silver to tho
value of -, ,li5, ,SS5,000. The Queen of
Sheba made him nice little present of
$4,000 900, aad Hiram made him pres.
eht OF the same amount. II he had lost
sh2 "ai;io 0f Il whole realm out Of his
pocket 1t would hardly have been worth
his while 70 stnnp down and pick il no ::
and yet, with all that atiluence. he writes
The words Of my text: Vanity of vani.
ties; all is vanity" Alas, if that man
could not find in all his worldly pussea.
sions enough to satisfy his immortal soul.
no amount that you and will ever gath.
cr by the sweat of our brow, or by the
strength of our arm. will make us happy.
have been amused TO hear people when
they start i'll life say at what point in life
they will be contented witt. worldly DOS.
sessions. One man says: 81 want to get
5000 and will be satisfied" An.
other: II want to get fifty or hundred
thousand, or u million, and then | will
be satisfied. Then will say to my soul
Now, just look Mt that block of store.
house. Just look Mt those Government
securities. Just look at those bonds and
mortgages. Just look what lucrative in.
vcstmcnts you have. Now, my soul,
take thine ease, eat, drink and be mer.
ry Thou fool If you are not happy
now with the smaller possessions, YOU
will never be with The large. ;,ossesss:oiss.
| with decent and comely apparel YOU
are not grateful to God, you would be
nngratcful If you had princes ward.
robe crowded till the hinges burst. IF
you sat this morning at your table and
tho inre was 80 poor you complained, YOU
would not be satisfied though YOU snt
down to partridge and pineapple. If
you nre not content with an income to
support comfortably your household, you
would not DO contented though your in.
come rolled in on you $50,0 600 OF $780,
oOo yenr. 1t is not what we get
1T is WHAT WE ARE
that makes us happy or miserable. If
that is not 80, how do you account for
the fact that many of those who fare
sumptuously every day are waspisl:, and
dissatisfied, und over. bearing, aud fore
bod!ng, and cranky, and uncompro.
missing, with countenance in which
wrath always lowers and lip which
scorn curls; while many time in the
summer evening you see laboring man
going home in his shirt sleeves, with
pail on his arm and pickaxe over his
shoulder, his face bright with smiles and
his heart with hope, and the night of his
toll bright with flaming nuroras9 1t is
al illustration Of the fact that i: Is no:
outward condition that makes man
happy. a man came TO Rothschild, the
great banker, and said: "You must be
thoroughly happy man" He said:
Happy? Me happy3 Happy when
just rs l al: going to die man sends mo
note, saying: If you don't send me
E5OO betore to morrow night will blow
your brains out Ne happy?" Oh, l
wish could by tho power of the Lord
Almighty break the inlatuation of those
men who are neglecting the present
sources of satisfaction, hoping TINT there
Is to be something in the future &c. then.
Of worldly nature :!ist 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
declare dividends. Come up this day
and get 1.-THE riches of Gods pardon,
the riches of Cod mercy, the riches of
Gods peace. Blessed are all they who
put their trust in Him.
l 60 still further and learn from this
subject that learning aud science cannot
satisfy the soul. You know that Solo.
mon was one Of the largest contributors
to the literature of his day. He wrote
] 900 songs he wrote 5000 proverbs;
he wrote about almost every thing. The
Bible says distinctly that he wrote about
plants, from the cedar Of Lebanon TO the
hyssop that growcth out of the walls
and about birds and beasts and fishes.
No doubt he put off his royal robes aud
put on the hunters trapping, and went
out with his arrows to bring down the
rarest specimens Of birds, and then with
his fishing apparatus he went down 10
the stream to bring up the denizens 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 ichthyology, the sci.
ence of fishes; about ornithology, the
science Of birds; about botany, the
science of plants. Yet, Notwithstanding
all his achievements, he cries out in my
text: vanity of vanities all is vanity"
Have you ever seen a man trying to make
LEARNING AND SCIENCE Ills GoD?,
Did you ever know such fearful auto.
biography as that of John Stuart Mill, a
man who prided himself on his philoso.
ply and had wonderful strength of
intellect? Yet after his death his auto.
biography went forth TO tho world, show.
ing that his whole life was a gigantic
wrctchedness. We have seen men 20
out with intercollegiate BANNER and
geologist's pry and botanist's knife and
ornithologist's gun snd storm the King.
dom of Nature in her barred castles OF
cave and grove and forest; and if there
il any heaven on earth it is that. With
your eyes prepared for all beautiful