The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11
WEAKNESS OF MONEY.
REV. THOMAS DIXON ON THE Pow
zzaERFy OF SOME MOEEYED MEN.

REV, THOMAS DIXON ON THE Pow
OF SOME MOEEYED MEN.
Money Cannot Buy Real Home or
True Affection or the Life of a
Loved one-Jay Gould and Mrs.
Booth,
Cape Charles, Va.-ReE. Thomas
Dixon, Jr., preached today the fourth
sermon in the series on the al
mighty Dollar, or the Problem OF
Money and the Gospel Of Christ" in
the Methodist church OIL Cobb's
island. Since the first Sunday the
crowds are so large the building can
not accommodate them. The text
chosen was Proverbs Vi, %, He that
trusteth in his riches shall fell"
Let no man believe that money In
itself is an omnipotent power-that
money in itself is The power that
rules the world. There never was
greater blunder. There never was
sadder mistake. AS matter OF fact,
mona7 in itself is the weakest thing
on this earth.
First-It cannot even make gen
sleman. We see strutting down the
streets of great western city man
who suddenly became possessed Of a
fortune of 81, 100000. he purchased
his paper from the newsboy on the
corner, and in his graneiloquent way
when the little fellow handed him
back his change, returned it to the
boy, saying, keep your money,
sonny; keep the change; 5sks & as
..l,ssS cslxa soap,
The little fellow drew him
self mp, and handing back the money
Indignantly replied, 'sTake your pen
MICS and go and buy 9 book on ETH
quette and learn how to be a gen.
tleman." The possession of money
does not even imply that man is a
gentleman.
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second-If cannot make a home.
4 man may own houses BY the pos
session Of money, but money IN itself
cannot build home. I know men
who own miles Of houses who do not
have home. To possess a house
is:one thing, a home another thing.
The poor man who believes ne can
buy it with money makes as grave
mistake as the millionaire who tries
to construct his ideal in the palace
on the crowning hill. 1t is said that
an Irishman, who was so ugly that
he could find nobody who would
1narry him in the old world, came to
America to try his fortune. As he
walked the streets he saw a sign
which read, Families supplied"
He went in at the side door and
asked the clerk if families were sup
piled. The. gentleman behind the
counter replied that they were. He
ran his hand in his pocket, drew out
his greasy wallet and began to unron
his money. He said to the clerk,
81 VIII take wife and two children"
This impossible story but states in
the concrete truth SO simple and
yet so S2rd for man to learn that the
brightest dream Of the soul of man
cannot be had in life for money-sil-
YER. gold or bank notes.
Equally impossible is it for the
man of millions to build home. out
Of his money. On Knob hill, in San
Francisco, there are magnificent
palaces that cost millions whose
broad sweeping lawns are oyergrown
with tangled grass, whose doors are
locked and bolted and barred. One
of them was owned by a great mil
ionaire senator. Why this desola-
ton now? He built it for a home.
1t cost millions. Simply because he
walked over the threshold Of that
house one day behind the coffin Of
the only child he had in the world.
AS he crossed the door of his palace
home he declared, II will never cross
the threshold Of this house again if
I I've to be 100 years old" He sent
carpenters, bolted and barred and
nailed the palace up, and he has
never crossed the doorsill since.
Money is a mighty power, and yet
It is the weakest thing in the world.
It cannot make man gentleman.
It cannot give'a man a home. And
if s man has no home and is not a
gentleman, what is he?
Third-So weak is money in itself
that it cannot give a man life. A
policeman on the force of New York
who has been a brave and faithful
officer, who broke up several gangs
of roughs in several quarters of the