St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-23
A RUSH FOR WEALTH,
One Idea Of Men Today Is
to Gain Wealth and
Money.
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A Striking Sermon by Rev.
Thomas McClary, of Bates
M. E. Church.
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How. the Wealthy Of the
Land Grind Down the
Poor.
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Excessive Devotion to Busi-
ness and Money Roundly
Condemned.


man of today. He said: ''Men have
ever been ambitious to gain this world.
its wealth and honor, and never SO anx-
ious as at present. Though the rocks
against which a thousand barqueS have
dashed are bare and prominent, men
are sailing toward them needless of the
peril. Jesus warns us against this
course and teaches us the value of
QuletneSS, cOntentment and proper in-
dustry.
They thatwill be rich. that make the
possessions of this world the end Of life,
and who live and strive for that thing,
and OH this, altar of mammon sacrifice
their Selfhood, they fall into temptation
and a snare and into many foolish and
hurtful lustS which drown men i'll deS-
tructiOn and perditiOn.
This strife for the world causes many
to engage in illegitimate business; they
will be rich, no matter how. Money
must come, if slaves will bring it they
are slavers, if selling liquor will bring
it they will do that, though they rob the
father, Starve the children, break the
mothers heart and cause deSOlatfon and
ruin wherever their influence extends.
Money they must have, though Wrung
from tears. For gold and honor men
and women
Sell Their Children
and their virtue. Naboth must die that
Ahab may possess the vineyard Uriah
must be put into the front Of the battle
that David may have Bathsheba for his
wife. 20 cursed lust of gold what will
thou not compel the human heart to
perpetrate."
This love of gain causes others to
carry on legitimate business in an un-
lawful way. Perhaps they grind the
faces of the poor, are dishonest in deal,
or. not satisfied with six days of labor,
they exact seven. Will man rob God?
Yet We have robbed me, even this
whole nation. What right have these
lords of grain and flour, of railroads and
lumber yards, to trampe Gods laws
under foot for the sake Of more rapidly
increasing tier wealth? What right.
have they to grind up human liveS.ln
their mills and scatter them like -four
dust; have they any right to destroy,
mems homes, health. families and souls;
to enrich themselves; any right to TEACH;
by example a community to disregardi
those laws essential to its well being;
any right to. overwork. men and Keep
them in charge of trains. intrusted With.
precious lives. when they are made
reckless or incompetent by overWoIk?
\ ct this is going on in railroads and
mills, while in stores and offices weary
brains are goaded OH through seven
days each week. Into the hODperS Of
our mills go sentiment, faith, love-,
homes. physical life, and they produce
disorder, ."
Dem orafization and Empiefy.ic {
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reasonable gains in reasonable time
there would be no need of Sunday
work, but mammon drives them OH.
The excessive devotion to business
which marks our times is caused large
ly. no doubt, by the ever increasing de-
mandS OF this country.
By the attempt of many to carry more
than they are able, too little capital for
their business. heaving along with bus
mess they can scarcely move-like
Mississippi steamer in low water trying
to make her way up with a heavily
loaded barge on each side.
BY the demands of society, excess in
living at home. luxury instead of econ
omy, too many families thinking more
OF display before the world than the
comfort of each other.
Then many seem to think this the one
thing needful for admission to office
society, and church, and heaven. With
out it you can be nothing, with it every
thing, and in that atmosphere the pres
ent generation lives. No wonder il
many fall into the habits of nursing
gain, who have not coyetOus DISPOSE
ton, and from the very force of sur
roundingS are borne along with the
main current, out of which it requires
the desperate effort of strong arm to
row. s
When men are plunged into business
as some men are, like swimmers in the
water up to their necks, sometimes over
their heads, they lose themselves, they
Lose This Life.
First-They lose intellectual life.
Their book is the newspaper, the one
chapter in that which they read is the
market reports; there is no time for
thought upon other themes, where the
world of intellectual beauty is revealed.
Second-They lose social life. What
is home or society to them? There is
no time for anything but business, they
do not see the bright, new world that
has such people in it.
Third-They lose religious life: they
have not learned to be diligent in bust
ness, fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord. And what time is there for
religion with one who seeks the world?
Such a man cannot attend prayer
meeting: has no time for family or
private prayer, or for reading the
Scripture. Sunday he is SO exhausted
as to fall asleep during his half-hour's
worship. or SO absorbed in business as
to find no place for the sermon.
Fourth-He loses physical life. No
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out suffering. The soil is eXhausted'by
continued cropping without rest and re
neWing; intellectual labor exhausts both
mind and body, drying up the streams
of life, burning in the hot fire of excite
ment the delicate nerves and fberS; of
the human system; then comes nervous
ness, sleeplessness, dependency, death.
why This Is Wrong. #
The excessive devotion to BUSINESS is
wrong, though many good man drifts
into il unconscious of his danger, as Une
in bright day drifts pleasantly down
the river; and is unalarmed till he finds
himself in the rapids of Niagara. y
First-Itis an injustice to ourSelf; for
man is here to be happy; to develop his
noble sentiments something more than
machine for making money. A mule
can cart gold, but it takes man to carry
those Jewels of mind and beart more
precious than gold. q
A man should, in justice to himself,
look outside the business world into the
world ofthought and sentiment; into
heaven itself, where Christ sitteth at
the right hand of God. Enjoyment is a
duty which man should not neglect.
"a laugh is worth hundred groans in
any market"
Second = 1t is wrong to friends.
The family circle should be frightened
by ones presence love, thoughtfulness,
devotion are the chiId's food; member