Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-08-03
WEAKNESS OF MONEY.
REV. THOMAS DIXON ON THE Pow
ERTY or SOME MONEYEn MEN.

Money Cannot Buy Real Homo or Tru'
Affection or the Life of Loved one-Ja,
Gould and Mrs. Booth.
CAPE CHARLES, Va, July 23.- Rev
Thomas Dixon, Jr., preached today thu
third sermon in the series on the al
mighty Dollar, or the Problem of Money
nd the Gospel Of Christ, in the Meth
Ddist chur.,h on Cobb's island. Since tho
FIRST Sunday the crowds are SO large tbs
building cannotaccommodate them. The
text chosen was Proverbs II. rs, He that
trusteth in his riches shall fall"
Let no man believe that money in it.
self is an omnipotent power-that mon
ey in itself Is the power that rules the
world. There never was greater blum
der. There never was a sadder mistake.
AS a matter of fact, money in itself is
the weakest thing ON this earth.
First-It cannot even make a gentle
man. We see strutting down the streets
of great western city man who sud-
denly became possessed of a fortune of
81 ,000, 900. He purchased his paper from
the newsboy on the corner, and in his
grandiloquent way, when the little fell
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 buy a book on etiquette and learn
| how to be gentleman" The possession
of money does not even imply that man
is a gentleman.
MONEY AND THE HOME.
Second-It cannot make a home. A
man may own 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 home.
To possess q house is one thing, home
another thing. The poor man who be
lieves he can buy it with money makes
as grave mistake as the millionaire who
tries to construct his ideal in the palace
on the browning hill. 1t is said that an
Irishman. who was so ugly that he could
find nobody who would marry him in
the old world, came TO 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 and
asked the clerk if families were 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 wife and two
children" This impossible story but
states in the concrete truth so simple
and yet so hard for man to learn that the
brightest dream of the soul of man can
not be had in life for money-silver, 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 overgrown with tangled grass, whose
doors are locked and bolted and barred.
One of them was owned by "A great mill
lionaire senator. Why this desolation
now? He built it for home. 1t cost |
millions Simply because he walked over |
the threshold of that house one day be- |
hind the coffin of the only child he had |
in the world. As he crossed the door Of |
his palace home he declared. Il will |
never cross the threshold of this house
again if live to be 100 years oldT' 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. 1t /
cannot make man a gentleman. 1t
cannot give a man home. And if a
man has no home and is not gentle
man, what is he?
Third-So weak is money in itself that
it cannot give man life. A policeman
on the force of New York who has been
a brave and faithful officer, who broke mp
several gangs of roughs in several quar-
tiers of the city, who tramped his beat
with a sense of duty and of the highest
service to the state, was recently left
fortune, and few weeks after he re-
ceived his fortune-money sufficient TO
lift him from poverty to wealth and lux
lry and the things of this world-his
body was found dead in his room with
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
ihe streets and brave the dangers of the
storms of winter and the sweltering suns
IF summer, to go on his dark errand of
arrest in the dangerous quarters of the
,ity, when he might have lived his life
IF ease and luxury? Simply because
here was little country girl whom he
rad learned to love who died three weeks
before, and he declared that life was not
worth living because she had been taken |
rom him. He had money and all its
power. and life was not worth living.
MONEY VERSUS WEALTH.
Fourth-Money is so weak that it can
lot even give a man wealth. We are
lpt to confuse wealth with money. A
nan may have money, but not be rich.
Real riches are one thing, money an {
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