The Progress., 1893-07-29
WEAKNESS OF MONEY.
REV THOMAS DIXON on THE PCV-
ERTY OF some MONEYCO NEN.
Affection ar the life oi Loved Onc-Jay
GouIh and Mr.. Eonti..

CAFE CHARLES. VI. July 23-Grv.
Thomas Dixon, Jr.. preached today tine
third sermon in the series ON the al
mighty Dollar, or the Problem of Money
and the Gospel of Christ, in the Meth
odi,t church on Cobh's island. Since Tire
first Sunday the crowds ave SD large the
building cannot accommodate them. The
text chosen was Proverbs ", 2S. lie that
trusteth in his riches shall fall"
Let no man believe that money in it.
self is an omuipotent pOwcr-that mon
ey in itself is tine power that rules the
world There never was - Groa;cr blum
der There mover was u saddcr mistake.
As a matter of fact. money in itself Is
the weakest thing on this earth.
First-It cannot even make gentle
man We see strutting down the streets
of great western city Il man who sud
denly became possessed of fortune Of
81 .CO0. 600 he purchased ms paper from
the ncwsboy On the corner, and in his
grandiloquent way, when the little fel-
low handed him back his change. re
turned it to the boy. saying, Keep your
money. sonny; keep the change; take It
and buy cake Of soap to wash your
face" The little fellow drew himself
up. and handing back the money indig
/ nantly replied. Take your pennies and
20 and buya book on etiquette and learn
how to be Il gentleman The possession
. of money does not even imply that a man
is a gentleman
MONEY AND THE HOME.
Sccond-lt cannot make Il home. \
man may ova houses by the possession
/ Of money. but money in itself cannot
build a home. | know men who own
miles of houses who do not have a home.
/ TO possess Il house il one thing. home
another thing. The poor man who be-
loves he can buy it with money makes
as gravca mistake as the millionaire who
tries to construct his ideal in the palace
on the crowning hill. 1t - said that an
lrishman. who was so ugly that ne could
find nobody who would marry him Ill
the old world. came 10 America To try
his fortune As he walked the streets he
saw sign which read, Families sup
Piled" He went in at the side door ana
asked the clerk if families wore supplied.
The gentleman behind the counter re
Piled that they were, He ran hIs hand
IN his pocket. drew out his greasy wallet
and began to unroll his money. He said
to the clerk. Il Will take a wife and two
children" This impossible story but
states in the concrete a truth so simple
and vet SO hard for man To learn that tha
brightest dream of the sorl of man can
not be had in life for money-sllver. gold
or bank notss.
Equally impossible is it for She man Of
millions to build home ont Ot his
money. On Knob hill in San Francisco,
there are magnificent palaces that cost
millions whose broad sweeping lawns
are overgrown with tangled grass, whose
doors are locked and bolted and barred.
One of them was owned by a great mil
honaire senator. Why this desolatiou
now? He built it for home. It cost
millions. Simply because he walked over
the threshold Of that house one day be
hind the coffin of the only child h. had
in the world. As he crossed the door of
his palace home he declared. Il will
never cross the threshold of tins house
again if live 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 mighty power, and yet it
is the weakest thing in the world. 1t
cannot make u man a gentleman. 1t
! cannot give a man home. And if a
man has no home and is not n gentle
man, what is he?
Thrd-So weak is money in itself that
it cannot give man life. A policeman
| on the force of New York who has been
/ q brave and faithful officer, who broke up
several gangs of roughs in several quar-
, ters of the city, who tramped his beat
with a sense OF duty and of the highest
service to the state, was recently left a
fortune, and few weeks after he re-
ceived his fortune-money sufficient to
lift him from poverty to wealth and lux
ury and the things of this world-hi5
body was found dead in his room with Il
pistol bullet in his brain. Why should
he slay himself when he had been given
release from his hard task, when he
would be required no longer to tramp
the streets and brave tho dangers of the
storms Of winter and the sweltering suns
of summer, to go on his dark errand OF
arrest in the dangerous quarters of the
city, when he might have lived his lif'
of ease and luxury Simply because
there was little country girl whom he
had learned to love who died three weeks
before, and he declared that life was moi
worth living because she had been taker
from him. He had money and all IT.
power, and life was not worth living.
MONEY VERSUS WEALTH.
Fourth-Money is SO weak that it can
not even give man wealth. We are
apt to confuse wealth with money.
man may have money, but not be rich
Real riches are one thing, money an
other. heard of l grocer who wa
growing rich. They said, by way o