The Arizona sentinel., 1885-05-23
Love and Money.

The charge made against money by the apostle, the preacher said, was an
 accident of the recklessness of the times.
 Pursuit of property was even more un- scrupulous than at the present time. Wars were carried on for pillage, and the most conspicuous civil administrators made forcible levies of money on their provinces. The expression that love of money is a bad passion is full of mean ing, and whoever will study deeply the habits of the period must conclude that the "accursed hunger" was the cause of unmeasured wrong as done by nations and individuals. While pondering on the intense utterance of St. Paul, along comes One broader and loftier, who says,
 "Son, go work in My vineyard ;" but, as work involves pay or property, 1t must be that there is love of money that Is not the root of evil, but is the root of all good, and that it may be the root of all evil or of all good. In the struggle for existence, which is the basis of labor, man wins more than existence, for he gradually ennobles his being. Money IS one of the earliest and most universal and most powerful motives. Money is general name for wants. It is thus the earliest motive of action, for man coming into this world wants dinner before he wants literature or @ relig- ion. He longs for clothes and shelter before he has any aspiration for music or pictures. The money which will purchase the food and clothing and shelter is thus the earliest and most universal of motives, and thus becomes pioneer to lead men out of barbarism into the light of learn ing and refinement. Before man was noble enough to be moved by patriotism, or by 8 thirst for knowledge, or by piety, or by taste for the beautiful, he began to be affected by money, and to be walked out of his sleep by considera- tion of the things 1t would buy. The rapid occupation and civilization of this continent are due as much to the love of money as to any other single passion of the heart. The Daniel Boones of American history should be granted only page of honor, for in some sense they were pioneers of religion and culture, but 8 man whose love of property was quite we'll satisfied with coat and cap made of skins and with 8 trusty rife cannot make wilderness glad or bloom. The passion for gold, which founded Lead vile or Denver, or San Francisco, or c Chicago, is ten thousand times more powerful for good than are the rifles of the Boones in the depths of the forest. Would that we could now measure this impulse and learn how long 1t should influence the individual career The trade winds of the sea blow according to fixed laws, and the mariner in the South ern oceans knows what months of the year will bring him favorable or reverse gales; but we know not definitely how long this breeze of gain should wait upon the sea that myster ious wanderer, the human heart. All IS obscure and indefinite. This is most certain, that the love of accumulating property fol- lows many too long, and offers ruin in- stead of salvation. AS the ambition which is implanted in the mind to urge it onward along lawful paths may pass beyond its bounds and make an invader of peaceful states devastating General, so this passion for material things may take possession of the whole soul and life of man, and crush him as the ser pents crushed the Laocoon, the priest of Latin fable.-Rev. David St0ing.