St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-02

ScIcIlcIy from Qdy W udy, uOlllS lto uu-
ties and enjoying the delights that they
bring. 1t will waste no time in worry
ing about yesterday, tomorrow or
which takes SO good care of us, now and
here, will continue to do SO always and
everywhere.
THE RACE FOR WEALTH.
A Powerful Sermon by Rev.
Charles r. Thwing.
At Plymouth church yesterday Rev.
Charles F. Thwing preached his fourth
sermon in the series addressed to young
men. He took his text from Prov.
xviii, 20. ''He that maketh haste to be
rich shall not be innocent"
What are the material temptations
that come to man in Minneapolis? A
young man for whom have the highest
esteem answered this question thus:
II believe my greatest temptation is the
desire for wealth. 1t has tempted me
from becoming the young man | ought
to be. Iprofess to be Christian and
work for the Master, yet have not been
successful in my work because l have
had that one object in view" One of
the most cultured of American scholars,
Prof. Charles Elliot Norton, is reported
to have said in a recent lecture on
Thought in America" ITO get wealth
Fame, rank, honor, learning, and all the
objects of ideal interest have compara-
lively lost their strength as motives of
effort and shapers of character and con-
duct. Wealth has become the chief
modern form of power. 1t has usurped
the place of the old ideals, so that now
it is desired not only as means to
other ends, but as itself an end" But
material progress is not synonymous
with spiritual advance. Closely related
as are intelligence, virtue and happi,
ness to material comfort, they require
other elements as we'll. The mind that
is employed in the eager concerns of
business has little energy left for
higher pursuits. Talent spent in ac-
Quiring wealth can not be spent in,ac-
Quiring wisdom. 1t is true now as of
old that man can not serve two masters.
There is to-day no diminutiOn of those
things that prevail to eXalt material
over mental interests, but rather they
are running with continually acceler-
ating speed and fuller volume. 1t is to
be feared that we are making the raj
ment more than the body and the meat
more than the life. We are inclined to
strive for all other things hoping that
somehow we shall be able to get the
kingdom of God and His righteousness
also. We invert the command of Sol
ONION and choose great riches, judging
that the great riches are sure to give us
a good name. In such condition it is
well to hear the statement of one who
is known in history as the wise man:
"He that maketh haste to be rich shall
not be innocent" The struggle for
rapid wealth is perilous.
One peril beSetting such struggle is
that the life of the contestant becomes
a life that is absorbed in the things
of matter, in things visible, tangible.
A life of poverty may be so absorbed.
wealth. But could you young man ask
them this question: Are you happier
tonight, Mr.. A., than you were when
you lived in three rooms and had only
500 ahead, what do you think would be
his answer? know we'll what his an
swer would be. am thankful, he would
say, to our God for giving me money;
but am more thankful for it for the
good it allows me to do than for the lux
uries it permits me to buy. Simple
wealth has not brought happiness to me
or mine. The best things in life are so
precious that they cannot be bought;
they are gifts, and they come to us as a
matter of grace from the Giver. Money
may seem leisure, but to most men it
means work; working harder to keep
than to get. Money may mean freedom
from care, but to most money is absorp-
ton in care. The best things are above
and beyond money, as life itself is
higher than and different from the red
blood in vein and artery.
Third would suggest one way
which we may keey ourselves from the
haste for riches. 1t is living in the
spirit, it is making unseen things seen,
Intangible things tangible; it is by liv-
ing with our supreme object the endea-
vor to do our duty completely, by liv-
ing as if we were immortal. For if
there is God, it is fitting that He should
be the supreme object of our affection.
If there is a God, He is a present, and
we bear to Him present relationship.
If there is God. He is wise God, and
which His wisdom and goodness make
known. 1t was said of Novalis that he
was God-intOXicated. So absorbed was
he in God that God was said to fill his
own soul. Every man should be so in-
spired with the love of God that his love
for other things should minister to, and
not lessen this supreme affectiOn-dOing
ones duty completely. l have only one
fear, said Mary Lyon-the fear that ]
shall not do my duty. Such a fear inn
plies at once humility and arrogance for
our fear is almost knowledge that we
shall not do our whole duty. Live in
the spirit of doing the duty which God
and the world put upon you. KnOwlthe
truth-the truth as to God, the truth as
to this complex being we call life, the
truth as to yourself. Then, as you have
a regard for all that is sacred and
precious, let no motive prevent your
doing your duty, yOur whole duty to
self, and life, and God. In the service
of this duty sacrifice health and
wealth; past and future. Such
sacrifice is reward more precious than
health and wealth; than past and future,
live in the unseen eternity, even while
you live in this struggling present. Be
assured also of your own deathlessness.
know that you are a spirit bearing the
touch of Immortality upon your brow.
Lift yourself above earthineSS. Have
the sense of wings, even while your
feet press the ground, Compare our
century with the endless time for de-
velopment, which awaits your character.
Know that your hand must drop all that
it handles. Know that at last you will
want only small piece of ground, and
want that small piece only short time.
Think of all these things when you feel
the struggling and striving for pelf.
Keep up, not with the times, but with
the eternities. Let the everlasting veri-
ties, God, duty, Immortality, possess
you. Be rich, but make no haste to be