Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-10-02
ADVERTISING RATES.
SOME THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY.
By REV. Il. W. LOWRIE.


Some boys and girls have an idea
that money can do almost anything,
bnt this is a mistake. Money, it is
true, can do a great deal, but it
cannot do everything. ] could
name you a thousand things it can
not bny. 1t was meant for good,
and it is a good thing to have, bat
all this depends on how it is used.
If used wrongly it is an injury rath-
or than q benefit. Beyond all
doubt, however, there are many
things better than it is, and which
it cannot purchase, no matter how
much we may have Of it.
II man has not good educa-
ton, all his money will never buy
it for him. He can scarcely ever
make mp for his early waste Of op-
portunities. lie may say, as / have
heard Of men saying: Il would
give all have if ! had only had a
good education and q well trained
mind ; but he will say it in vain.
His money alone can't obtain it.
Neither will wealth itself give a
man or a woman good manners
Nothing, next to good morals and
good health, is Of more Importance
than easy, graceful, self-possessed
manners. But they can't be had
for mere money.
4 man who is what is called
'shoddy,' who has not taste and corr
rect manners, will never buy them
though he would, no doubt, like
to. They are not to be had in the
market. They arc nowhere for sale.
You might as well try to buy sky
or cloud or sunbeams.
Money can't purchase a good con-
science. If a poor man or a boy or
girl-any one-has a clear con-
science, that gives off a tone like a
sound bell when touched by the
hammer, why, bless you, he is vast
ly richer than the millionaire who
does not possess such a conscience.
Good principles are better 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 a 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 a really serious way,
The dollar is not omnipOtent. 1t is
mighty, but not almighty. There
are thousands of things which it
cannot accomplish.
During the Revolutionary war a
British officer offered a large bribe
to an American general. The gen
eral looked him in the face and told
him that his royal master in Eng
land had not enough money in all
his kingdom to pay him to do the
mean thing he 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 ill our houses With fine
pictures, but it cannot alone give
us a true appreciation Of them. 1t
may take us abroad to see foreign
sights, but it cannot give us true
tastc 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 conversation, and all
those better things that come fron-
other and higher sources than q
pocket-boOk.
Thousands and thousands Of glo-
rious things are beyond the reach
of the hand of gold. And the beau
ty Of it is that if riches should take
to themselves wings and fly away,
why all these better things, as they
do not como from wealth, do not
disappear with it. There is, then, a
market, and wide one, in which
money hasno recognized value-the
market Of intellectual, spiritual and
other high and holy things.