The Progress., 1893-07-15

which u the Great Evil HcsrtIess Prov
rTb- of Unrd Hearted Money .cckcrs
Murder. Ia Trade.
CAFE CHARLES. Va. July 9.-Rcy.
Thomas Dixon. Jr, preached on Cobb's
island tU1I- the second sermon in the
series on the question of money and its
relation % the gospel of Christ. The
prUpretors Of the hotel on the island
have arranged n grhedulo of three boats
on Sundays to- convey the people from
the mainland to the island to attend the
services. The text chosen for the dis
course today was the provcrb. He that
ifath an evil eye hastcth after riches. the
specific subject being the Money Ma
mia.
VI Is not a SIN to be rich if our riches
arc righteousIy obtained And vet a
thousand dangers beset the man who
sets out with the determination 10 be
rich 1t ~ easier for camel 70 20
through tho eyo Of needle than for a
rich man 70 enter the kingdom of heav-
On. He Is almost sure to reach the crisis
m, his experience when he will say
soul, take thine ease; | have much
goods laid up for thee in store. and enter
upon a downward course from that mo
ment The determination to get rich at
all hazards may be termed modern dis
ease II money mania. II is the evil
eye OF the closing DAYS of this century.
1t has thrown its spell over millions. Ii
rs disease which sweeps before it the
whole nature Of man. that laws waste
. .Nr,lu l. e..
might be the faireSt homes. but that Laws
waste what might be tho gardens Of the
nations. II : this modern disease of the
evil eye Of haste for riches that is one of
the most withering curses of our age.
tirst-lt denies and abrogates the par
amount law of industry. In the sweat
OF mans brow shall he eat bread. de-
creed tho eternal God. echoed the eternal
nature. And yet men in modern times
have said that they will do nothing of
the sort. They will eat bread without
labor They will eat bread by trick, by
chicancry, by overrcaching. by swim
ding, by cheating. by humbug. This
abrogation of tho paramount law Of in
dustry brings Us face to face with the
submerged millions in the industrial
world. with the countless thousands and (
hundreds OF thousands who cry for
bread. who are caught in the vicious un-
dertow OF tins angry sea of human ava |
r1cc and are dragged to the bottom of the
deepest sea Of human misery. In the
mildest developments of this mania It is
simply gambling, and its necessary cor '
ollaries are hard times. plnics and the !
periodical disturbances of the Industrial
world which result in thousands or
wrecks
COTTAGE BY THE SEA a
SeCond-lt leads to thousand crimes {
The desire and the determination 70 gct t
rIci. and that shortly, is the power that r
leads the man intrlsted with money to
risk that money in questionable transac- I
tions. Il Is this haste to I've rich that i.
sketches for your cashier and your mer-
chant and your bank officer the wild
dreams OF luxury which lead at last toan t.
outer act OF criminalty. The cashier from d
his desk dreams Of palace, of horses and r
carriages. and the cottage by the sea, a n
mansion in the city He is q
not willing to obtain his money by the a
slow process of work He believes that /
he can stake certain sum and win: with a
the turn Of the wheel of fortune can be II
rich in day. He stakes other peoples e
and the result is crime. These n
crimes are but simply eccentric and es- q
thetic developments of the older crimes l
against person founded on the same prin- d
ciple. II
A highwayman is highwayman be- Il
cause he determines to be rich suddenly u
The burglar is burglar because he de- Il
sires to get rich in night. And the muir ,
derer destroys his victim for his money u
because he desires to be rich immediate u
ly Highway robbery. burglary, mur- =.
der for money, are the original brutal u
elements out of which the more aesthetic q
modern developments of hasty riches v
have sprung 1t is this mania that leads
TO a thousand crimes today against sOci-
ETY.. The dive, the gambling den, the
saloon, the brothel have as their funda- v
mental inspiration the desire for sudden u
riches. There are individual idiosyncra- a
cies that develop them. but there are u
thousands OF lives drawn to this whirl D
pool Of vice and crime by the attractive q
power OF the evll eye OF money. man .
believes that he can become rich rapidly .
by keeping saloon. He is willing TO
trade in human hearts and human blood =
to accomplish that purpose. A man is
willing to debauch his fellow man in u
gambling hell. believing that he may
suddenly acquire great fortune.
THE BEST MAN
Third-This mania rs it grows in men u
emphasizes and develops all that is cen
tral in self Il necessarily makes a man U
mean and selfish. 1t causes man to en- e
ter his hearts affection upon that one {
thing. He esteems that to be his treas c
ure of life Where mans treasure is, .
there will his heart I've also. It will hard /
en- and make mean tho poor man who is .
afflicted with the mania as well as the .
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