The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-10-17

Some boys and girls have an 1ura
that money can do almost anything,
but this is a mistake. Money, it is
true, can do great deal, but it cannot
do everything. l could name you a
thousand things it cannot buy. 1t was.
meant for good, and it is good thing
to have, but all this depends on how it
is used. If used wrongly it is an injury
rather than 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.
If man has not a good education,
all his money will never buy it for him.
He can scarcely ever make up for his
early waste of opportunities. He may
say, as have heard of men saying: 81
would give all have if l had only had
good education and a well trained
mind;" but he will say it in vain. His
money alone can't obtain it.
Neither will wealth itself give man
or woman good manners. Nothing,
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full self possessed manners. But they
can't be had for mere money.
A man who is what is called "shod
dy," who has not taste and correct
manners, will never buy them-though
he would, no doubt, like to. They are
not to be had in the market. They are
nowhere for sale. You might as well
try to buy sky or cloud or sunbeams.
Money can't purchase a good con-
science. If poor man or boy or girl
any one-has a clear conscience, that
gives off tone like sound bell when
touched by the hammer, why, bless you,
he is vastly richer than the millionaire
who does not possess such conscience.
Good principles are better than gold.
All the gold of Galconda couldn't buy
them for man who hasn't them already.
Money is very much sought after, and
it can command a great deal of COM
fort. But it is very wrong and very in
correct to speak of money as the AL
mighty dollar-that is, if we do so in
really serious way. The dollar is not
omnipotent, 1t is mighty, but not al
mighty. There are thousands of things
| which it cannot accomplish.
During the Revolutionary war Brit
ish officer offered large bribe to an
American general The general looked
him in the face and told him that his
royal master in England had not enough
money in all his kingdom to pay him
to do the mean thing he was wanted to
do.
And there have been, and are thous-
ands ofSuch men-men whom no amount
of money could buy. Money is not al
mighty.
1t may fill our houses with fine pic
lures, but it cannot alone give US true
appreciation of them. 1t may take us
abroad to see foreign sights, but it can
not give us true taste about them. 1t
may buy us an entrance into better So
ciety than we are used to but can never,
of itself, purchase ease of manner and
those better things that come from other
and higher sources than pocket-book.
Thousands and thousands of glorious
things are beyond the reach of the hand
of gold. And the beauty of it is that if
riches should take to themselves wings
and fly away, why all these better things,
as they do not come from wealth, do
not disappear with it. There is, then,
a market, and a wide one, in which
money has no recognized value-the
market of intellectual, spiritual and
other high and holy things.