News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-28
THE RICH AND POOR.
The Almighty Judges Men by the Wealth
of Their Souls.

Mr.. Beecher spoke in most happy
vein at the Sunday morning service at
Plymouth church. A few isolated
thoughts to which he gave expression
are given below:
"Men charge on men as elephants
charge on gardens. What do they care
for tuberoses or lilies.
"He may be palatial who dwells in the
hut of poverty; he may be a pauper be-
fore God who dwells in marble and gold.
'Have YOU known what the joys and
sorrows of fatherhood are? Have you
never seen how it is in the power of
recreant son to empty the heart of
father and mother of all pleasures of
life ~
"It is the heart that makes the heart
rich, nothing else can; and it Is the heart
of man that makes God rich"
"You can make God rich and you can
make him poor. Every one that lives
for himself and is not rich toward God is
a fool"
els there any partnership between
yourself and God in your business? Do
you hold your methods of maintaining
your character among men with the dis
tinct understanding with yourself that it
is the way pointed out by God by which
YOU can become a better man and rich
.oward God by developing within your
telf divine qualities ?"
ssEvery Christian man that is living
right has an invisible partner God.
And He is not sleeping partner, either.
All the capital you have got He has put
in"
"Religion with some men is the pre-
MUM they have paid on their eternal
insurance.
''The generous man may have lost his
property, but he has saved himself; you
are going to keep your property and be
damned.
81 am not sorry for the man that I see
going to the poorhouse-although I
would not say there are more angels
lowering over the poorhouse than over
the palace. On the contrary, desire
to have it understood that believe that
some of Gods most precious saints are
living in marble and gold.
"Oh, poor rich man Nothing of
him-nothing of him."
'"There are multitudes of men that are
like dandelions. They come up and they
look like golden coins all over the field,
exquisite to my eye they are, and as soon
as they have shown all the colors of gold
they shut up for little while, and then
they form an airy, exquisitely beautiful
globe. Pluck one-puff Its gone.
You can't find it, and even if it is found
it amt good for anything -nothing of it.
I could name man after man that In my
day came up, globed, puff and there
was nothing of him; the place that
knew him knows him no more"
Gas my days go on l am less particu-
lar as to ecclesiasticism, and 1 am more
and more profoundly impressed with the
reality of true religion, and that the ex-
position of true religion is not to be
found in books or rituals, but in the liv-
ing soul of God"
''Let not the footsteps of your present
meditation be washed out by the sea to-
Come out of your winter. Enter
into the spring. May the spring lead to
summer and the summer to the fruit
laden autumn; and when you are gath
cred from among men let every one that
loves virtue praise you and be thankful
TO God for your example, and let heaven
rejoice in you and over you, and may
you enter into the midst of that joyful
procession that comes forth to NEE
you"