The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-07-06
THEPOWER OF MONEY
eFy THOMAS oixos's SERMON On
TaE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.
The Zeal Capital af ,h~ rnstra states -
Net " asiaing;on. bet Wall street. Ne"
xa-t-sron~s Questions so Pr~aamfnat~
rnr a-s.rr IeArx-An AMful fofee-

Thomas Dixon. .Fr., has closed his cot
tare here for July and August and re-
moved. With his family, 10 Sobos IS
land. on the seaside Cobb's island u
,,,e NEXT island 10 the south frori Broad
r-aser. to favcrite resort OF Psssiient
Cleveland or the Virginia coast IL Is
merely IA strip II sand, with the ocean ON
one side and BTocdwGser bay on tire oth-
er. Il has lleet. famous resort for .
long uu:n1 er of ycs-rs for hunters an"
for fishermen. IL is the center OF II
hunting AMI fishing district Of the east
ern shore OF Virginia
Mr.. Dixon hogan today series OF ser
mons. to be continued through July and
August, on the question of Money ana
Christianity: or. The Modern Problem OF
the Almighty Dollar" The Introduction
TO the series was delivered this morning
in the Methodist church at Cobbs island.
Through the months OF July and August
the hotel lr:sl cottages are crowded with
guests from every part or the country
The audience was a representative one.
composed OF men Of every class and sta
ton in life, brit included large number
OF country people in Northampton coan-
ty who have grown 10 know Mr. DIXON
during his residence on the cape through
the past spring months.
The text chosen was Exodus xxi, 3,
4: And all the people brake off the
golden rings which were i'll their ears
and brought them unto Aaron. And he
received them at their hand and fashioned
it with a craving tool and made it d
molten calf, and they said, These be thy
gods, @ Israel, which brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt"
MODERN IsRAEIITEs.
The children of Israel, if they were the
first to make golden calf and worship
it, certainly have not been the last peo-
pie guilty of this desertion of the true
God for the image made with human
hands. The problem Of money is the
problem of the latter days of the nine
tenth century. The problem of money
is in fact the problem of modern life. 1t
is the one question with which we are al!
intimately concerned from the very be-
ginning of life to its close. 1t costs
money to be born into the world, and
under present tariff schedules it costs
more to die. From the beginning to the
end it is this everlasting money question
with which mortal man is confronted.
| The money issue is the one magnet
around which all other problems at last
do center Mans interest in money
seems to be the power by which he can
be tested both physically and morally.
The French government uses this magnet
IS the power by which mans capacity for
the army is frequently tested. When men
are summoned to enter the army, they
are often afflicted with various diseases
of sudden development. Men are stricken
| dumb and deaf in most unacccuntable
ways. A deaf man appears before the
| French tribunal as possible army re-
crutt. He of course can hear nothing.
| The loudest word Of command makes no
| impression on him. He declares through
signs that he cannot hear it thunder.
After the examination is completed and
he has been discharged as unfit for serv-
ice, as he departs from the tribunal an
officer follows him to the street and
| drops gold coin behind him on the
pavement. Instantly he turns, attracted
by the magic ring of the coin, to pick it
up. He is at once arrested and forced
into the army ranks, 1t is q test of man i
character in thousand ways. It is a
test of a nations character. 1t is the test
of the nature Of society as we'll as of in
dividuals and nations
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Our own nation Is most intimately
concerned just now with this tremen-
dous problem and its possible develop
ments. We are in the throes Of posi-
BILE panic that will be an epoch making
event in our history. Men are studying
the money problem as never before, and
they are studying it from the bottom tt
thetop. The question of money involved
in the problem of gold or of silver as
standard opens finally the broader ques
ton of the right of money to exist W.
are brought face to face with the theo
ries promulgated by the great French
and German socialists of the past cen
|, fury. In the theories of the Farmers
Alliance and it's allied parties we ar.
brought face to face with the reincar
, mated doctrines of Karl Marx and Rod
bertus
These problems OF q money STANDARD
and Of the question Of intrinsic value e,
to the very heart of the social problem O
the century. They will not be settled IL
a day. They will not be settled in on
!. administration or in two. This none,
i problem is destined to make and unmak
parties and statesmen for the next quar-
: ter Of century. 1t is the problem O
the hour. In the world of politics it
the problem of the future for the pro
= foundest statesman. In our introduction
, to this study we do not propose to ente
upon the discussion of these profound as
poets of the money problem. We shall
: discuss rather money rs the unit of com
mercial value, and therefore the stand
? ard OF measurement for economic DOW
! er-or, In other words, the standard O
measurement for wealth.
Personally do not decry wealth O
its accumulation. do believe that it
a crime for any man to rear family i
the world and not provide for them.
believe that there is sin which a ma,
$ may be guilty of that is worse than ii,
attempt to get money-it Is the vice @
| the spendthrift, and it Is a vice of whic
, the preacher is often most guilty.
confess that it is one of my sins. Wit
, me. personally. tbs money problem Ia
been always about the same six year
! ago was pastor Of little church i
! North CaroiinI, and ha,l IL salary OF 81
a. a month. III the end ef the month. .
, yoa mav Nc!l IN. inc, had pothin.
q | Now. IN .'.,ts. - I have a salary 6
about $500 month, and at the end {
J the month am in debt. do not beliey
that this Is right. have never believe
it to be right. ! have promised an
: promised to reform. am irving
study the subject that ! may lead m,
self into the light, certainly in this
, pect of the case.
e GREATEST POWER ON EARTH.
' Wealth, in fact, has its deep spirifs1;
= Significance when accumulated bv pro,
: er ways and sought In the proper spiri