Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-11
DIR, HOLLANDS SERMON.
Get Money, but Do Good With it, the Bur-
den of His Remarks-Timely Advice on

Get Money, but Do Good With it, the Bur-
den of His Remarks-Tfmely Advice or
the Financial Evil.
DR.. W. j. Holland, D. D., pastor of the
Bellefeld Presbyterian Church, preached
yesterday morning on Failure and Sue.
cess" His text was found in Luke ix:4f
and AZ. Among other things the Doctor
said:
ambition is found in the soul of every
man. A character of the ambitions cher.
ished varies according to education, circum.
stances and the degree of spiritual enlight.
enment. With many men the sum OF theil
ambition is to have enough to eat and drink.
Such an ambition is not necessarily sinful
in itself. Hunger and love are the
great wheels which keep the world
in motion, and Christ has Him
self taught us to pray for our daily
bread, but never to rise beyond this, is after
all, to be but little better than beasts. With
many men, the main purpose of lite is more
than the qualification of animal appetite.
The acquisition of money becomes identified
with the qualification of taste and thirst for
power. A rich man not long ago in a
learned essay, sought TO demonstrate that
the money getting disposition of the age Is
right. If you should ask hundred Amer
lean boys to-day what they would like to
become, go of the number would tell YOU
that they would like to be rich,
not because they are hungry or
poorly clad, but because they are
converts to the foolish doctrine that there
is nothing which money will not do The
remaining ten, however, would express an
ambition running in other directions. They
would tell you that they wished for great
ness to be achieved along the lines of
artistic, literary, scientific or political
activity.
1.-The love of pre-eminence has existed in
every age. It asserted itself in the company
of the apostles. There was a reason-an
argument-among them which of them
should be the greatest. Christ placed a
little child in their midst He told them
that if they wished ever to enter into His
kingdom they must become humble and
dociIe as children, and informed them that
service rendered to the lowly and in the
name of Christ constituted the truest claim
to greatness.
"Christ recognized the fact that man
should be greater than his circumstances; that
what he is is of more Importance than what
he has The trouble is that men make
slaves of themselves to circumstances.
They go on heaping up burdens upon their
backs, and then parade themselves before
the world as great because they are able to
carry SO much. The unIhinking world ap-
plsuds them very much as itwould applaud
an athlete in the circus or baby horse.
They fatter themselves that they are really
great men. Christ teaches us that man
may carry less and be greater for that. "A
mans a man for a. that Some of the
meanest men 1 ever knew were rich men.
Pocketbooks do not cover, like charity, a
multitude of sins, even if some people think
otherwise, Thank God, some of the best
and noblest men have been rich men who
had learned the secret Christ teaches-that
to do good is better than to enhance goods.
What is the secret of failure in this matter
of money-getting in the sight of God !? 1t
is to get and to get, and to get and to forget
to give, in the name of sweet charity and
Christ, to the good of the poor. Get mill
ions, young man, if you can honestly; but
do not let your millions rule you. So shall
YOU be truly successful