Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-19
FACTS FROM THE PULPIT.
Rev. J. u. ThraII's Sunday Even-
ing Lecture TO Young Men.

On Sunday evening, at independence
Hall, Rev. J. B.. Thrall delivered the
fourth of series OF lectures to young
men, of which the following is synopsis
Facts show that the mint value Of
money is too little understood. Society
is dazzled by great fortunes as Rome was
dazzled by the military genius of Cesar,
not because he was a man, but because
he seemed a god. The average young
man takes off his hat to colossal pocket
book, because it represents a degree OF
power to which he never expects to at
tain.
The American people have not yet
learned to respect moderate competency
as it deserves to be respected. We have
not learned the value OF money, as money.
Other things being equal, it is as honor
able to be worth $1,000 at 40, as to be re-
puted for intelligence. But young men
have not adequately learned that there is
moral responsibility involved in the
possibility of becoming financially indie
pendent. ...s Ht
There is a good deal of excuse for them.
Duties with relation to money were about
the last things boys were taught at home
or school. They were given pennies to
buy candy, but they were not taught the
higher purchasing power of those
pennies. 1t was inevitable that money
should represent to them only 50 many
necessities plus so many luxuries. The
lesson they should have been taught be-
fore they needed to apply it, they learned
only by hard experimentation after the
harvest was past and the summer ended.
Boys should be afforded an opportunity
early in life to learn common business
prudence, and acquire the first principles
of a sound financial policy.
The value of money cannot be over
estimated. 1t is the value of those things
commonly estimated. Men sometimes
"pay too dear for their whistle" but in
such cases it was the worth of the whistle,
not the value of the money which was
overestimated. Ii money is used to pur-
chase education, if it is used as factor
in civilization, there is no danger of over
estimating it. The three fates which
preside over the temporal destiny of
young men in these modern days, are
making, saving and spending. Put in
few words, this lecture might be boiled
down thus: Make all you can; save all
you can; spend all you can.
First-Make all you can. Not make
haste to get rich, but choose a good call
ing. Choose, if possible, a broad and
high calling. Do not choose a calling
simply because it affords the readiest
means of getting living. Choose a call
ing that has brain and an upper story in
it; and disdain any calling as beneath
you, no matter how remunerative, which
does not allow full play to your moral
faculties. .tls
Second-Save all you can. Anything
is worth more to save than it was to
make. 1t might have been matter of
choice whether a certain thing should be
made, but once made there is no longer
room for choice.
Third-Spend all you can. Save in
order that you may spend. What cannot |
be converted to use is not worth having. |
In the final issue the only way to save
anything is to spend it, that Is, convert it |
TO Its brightest uses. Do not convert your |
money into that which is not valuable, |
md do not cultivate a mere hoarder's in
'tfnct. Be industrious, be economical,
De generous. Do not be miser and do
lot be a spendthrift.
Let every young man, who would be
and moral and highminded,
)egin with that which lies nearest him
-iz. the finance question.
But carry this question of making, saw
1g, and spending, beyond finance. Make
haracter, save it, and spend it.
Make reputation, save it, and spend it.
lake influence, save it, and spend it.
lake brain and give power, save it, and
pend it. ,~TI
In short, make manhood, save it, and
ring it to its uses.