Little Falls transcript., 1893-12-22
MONEY.
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The Right Method OF Getting
and Spending Discussed
Last Night by Rev.
VIM. Moore.

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the subject Of Rev. w m. Moore's lee
ture last night ut the Congregational
church. The speaker commenced by
showing that the Bible, while warn
ing men of the temptation of riches,
was emphatic in it's demand that
men should be Industrious and dili-
gent in providing for their wants,
and in the prosecution of their bust
ness. In the getting OF money Two
or three things have to be borne in
mind. First OF all, no one should
seek to make money by engaging in
a business that is morally wrong.
There may be money in such a busi-
ness, but it is gained at the expense
81. honor and moral integrity Then
too, in the matter of legitimate busi-
ness, one should be careful to con-
duct it only on right principles.
Foomany men in their eagerness to
make money will cheat and resort
to tricks of trade in the shape of
adulteration, short measure and the
selling of inferior goods as articles of
best make. We have right to ex-
pect that business men snail be hon
orable in their dealings, and no
doubt most of them are. When we
buy yard ofgoods weexpect thirty
six inches to the yard. When we
buy leather shoes we expect them to
be made of leather and not of brown
paper. So too, employers of labor
should give to their men what has
been aptly termed OF latei in England,
a Living wage and not seek to
make a profit by cutting down
| wages to a starvation point. EN-
ployees also have their duty to per-
form. When paid for ten hours
work the employer has Il perfect
right to expect of his men ten hours
work. The desire to make money is
at the bottom of all material prog
ress. We see this illustra ted in the
history of our own town. A few
years ago it was place of only a
few hundred people; now it is city
OF five thousand, with handsome
business blocks. beautiful private
residences and imposing public build
ings. All this has been made actual
because men were imbued with the
desire to get money. 1t is not in the
spirit of benevOlence or charity,
nor for the mere sake of
spending money, but for the
]purpose of making money that
the Mississippi has been harnessed by
| throwing dam across it and it's
power utilized for the movement of
machinery; that industries of various
kinds have been located along it's
banks, and that business houses
have been established. We see then
by this progress which is so bene-
fetal to society how laudable a thing
it is to wish to make money. The
evil comes in when there is an in
ordinate desire for wealth. We say
sometimes that a man possesses SO
much wealth. That is all right, the
trouble comes in when the wealth
possesses the man. A ship is all
right when it is blowing it's way
across the ocean SO long as the
water is kept out of the hold; when
the water penetrates the ship then
the danger and shipwreck ensues.
SO, just SO long as the desire for
wealth is subordinated to higher
things a man is safe, but when it be-
comes the ruling passion with him,
he is lost man.. He is guilty of
covetousness, one of the worst sins
of which we can he guilty. The
Bible exclaims most strongly
against it. 1t brings before us as
examples Of the 'covetous man, Bal
aam, Achan, Nabal, Ahab and Jeze-
bel, Gehazi, Simon, Magus and An
nanias and Sapphira. The chiefest
OF poets have also in strong and EN-
phatic verse condemned this great
sin. Shakespeare, in his "1imon OF
Athens falls foul of the greedy crew
who break the strong heart of the
worthy Athenian. Milton portrays
"Mammon" as the meanest and
most grovelling of the fallen angels,
while Dante conigns to the lake of
burning pitch, there to be tormented
by the cruellest and most indecent
of fiends, all who upon earth have
been guilty of avarice and usury.
Turning from, the question of get
ting to that OF spending money Mr..
Moore briefly described the various
ways men have Ofusing the money
! they have amassed. Some h hoard it in
miser fashion and love to gloat over
it as did ''Silas Mariner" Such men
worship gold. it is their God. Others
spend money not for the blessing Of
mankind but for the qualification of
their own personal tastes. This is
the selfish use of money. But still
Others. and their number is increas-
ing, spend their wealth for the good
of others. Such men experience the
same Joy that T. Carlyle had when as
he tells in his boyhood days a poor
! wretched peasant came to his
fathers house in Ecclefechan.
Carlyle says. 81 had saved all the
pennies given me and had put them
in an earthen thrift-iar that was
Fplaced on a shelf over the fireplace.
When the man came I took down
the jar, broke it and poured all it's
contents into the mans lap. Inever
knew till then the joy OF giving y
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