The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-07-13
THE LOVE OF MONEY.
rev. THOMAS onos's SECOND SER
MON ON MONEY AND cHRisTIsNfTY.

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rev. THOMAS onos's SECOND SER.
MON ON MONEY AND cHRisTlsNiTY.
II ss Net Money. bad the C.<aas Ias~ sf d.
While. IL she Gr~ss Evti-'Hs~ssi~s. Prov
.srb. ~ Hard Hearted Neaey se~k~r-
Murder. In Trade. s a.. II 81. -.ss.-
4 CAFE CHARLES. Va. July o-Rev
Thomas Dixon. Jr.. preached ON Cobb's
iz1and today the second sermon in the
series on the question: OF money and It's
rotation to the gospel Of Christ The
proprietors Of the hotel ON the island
have arranged schedule of three boats
on Sundays TO convey the people from
the mainland To the island to attend the
services. TIE text chosen for the dir
course today was the proverb. .,iie that
hath an evil ere hsssteth after riches the
specifs: subject being the .Money Ma
MIA :. s5.. ....-s@s..5 -f..4s- s.a.s -. a.
IL is not u sin TO bs rich If our riches
are righteously obtained. And yet II
thousand dangers beset the man who
sets out with the determination to be
rich. II, is easier for camel to go
through the eye Of needle than for a
rich man TO enter the Kingdom Of hesv
en- He is almost sure to reach the crisis
in his experience when he viii say.
Soul. take. thine ease: / have much
goods laid up for thee in store. and enter
upon downward course from that mo
nient. The determination to get rich at
all hazards may DO termed modern dis
ease. tits u money mania. II is the evil
eye OF the closing days OF this century.
| It has thrown its spell over millions. It
is = disease which sweeps before it the
| whole nature Of man, that Lays waste
| not only the fairest hearts and what
! might be the fairest homes but that lays
waste what might be the gardens Of the
| nations 1t is this modern disease Of the
evil eye Of haste for riches that is one of 1
the most whitening curses of our age.
First-it denies and abrogates the par :
amount law of industry. - In the sweat 4
Of mans brow shall he eat bread, de-
creed the eternal God, echoed the eternal
nature And yet men in modern times
have said that they will do nothing Of 1
the sort. They viii eat bread without
labor They will eat bread by trick, by !
chicanery. by overreaching: by swim.
ding, by cheating, by humbug. This
abrogation Of the paramount law Of in-.l
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
bpe,d, who are caught in the vicious I'M
dertow OF this angry sea of human ava
r1<.a nd p<,1 ~ l.
deepest sea of human misery. 81 In the
mildest developments of this mania it is
simply gambling, and its necessary cor,
ollaries are hard times panics and the
periodical disturbances of the industrial
world which result in thousands of
wrecks. a.i,...., .l;i FL. f.......-
-.>.-,,., COTTAGE By THE SEA. -. II
Second-It leads to a thousand crimes.
The desire and the determination to get
rich, and that shortly, ia the power that
leads the man intrusted with money to
rlsk that money in questionable transac-
lions II is this haste to be rich that
SKETCHES for your, cashier and your mer-
chant and your bank officer the wild
dreams Of luxury which lead at last to an
outer act Of criminality. The cashier from
his desk dreamsof palace, Of horses and
carriages. apd the cottage by the sea, a
magnificent mansion in the city. He' is
not willing to obtain his money by the
slow process of work. He believes that !
he can stake certain sum and win: with I !
the turn Of the wheel of fortune q can be
rich in a day. He stakes other lpeeople's {
money. and the result is crime. These, ,
crimes are but simply eccentric and ses.:
thetic developments Of the! older crimes 0l,
against person founded on the, same i5,rrin.. {
ciple =. - az ''-.'s p''4l I.-'77'1 -.
A highwayman is q. hightwa,y,lmila,n be- c
cause he determines to be rich suddenly c
me burglar is a burglar because he de- I
slres to get rich il night. And the muir rr:i I
1erer destroys his victim for his money in.eayf
because be desires to be rich Immediate I
y. Highway robbery. burglary muir
Ter FOR money, are Che original brutal Q
elements out of which the more aasthetic q
modern developments Of hasty3 riches T
nave sprung. IT is this mania That leads 9
% Thousand crimes today against 'soci- 1 d
'ty The dive, the gambling den, the 4 8
aioon, the brpthel.. have AS their Ifnnda.if /
mental Inspiration the desire for sudden i
'lches There are individual idiosyhcra- Il
lies that develop them, but there are A
thousands of lives drawn to- this wb7rl., Il
'ooi OF vice and crime by the, attractive q
'ower OF the evil eye Of money. . "A man
believes that he can become rich rapidly
y Keeping a saloon He is willing TO / 81
rade ia human hearts and human blood g.
accomplish that purpose A man, is / re
willing TO dehaach his Fellow man in a CT
ambling hell, believing that he may n
uddenly acquire a great fortune o., BOD tt
!, T*''' THE BEST MAN. I-Ho3j- acsa'1 III
Fhrd-This mania as it grows In men to
and develops all that is cen
raj In self II necessarily makes a. man "
iean and selfish. 1t causes u man To. ep.ol tn
sr MS hearts affection upon. that one ke
hing, Heresteems that to- be his.treas., "
re Of life. Where mans treasure ia i dr
here will his heart be Also It will hard. / 70
. ana make mean the poor man who is OF
a,'cseo Win the mania as well As the d on
On VINO haze gone beyond the hope of / nc
coyery Iheard Of an old farmer in 4 kr
lame who sent a.son into the war. He ",
as khied In battle The old man after 4 2
anu expressed tis regrets.a He said shat / bv
had made a; great mistake; that he / ra
aght 20 haye had a, su bstitute. He said pa
lat ne coHld not getiaIpan anywhere i'm tiS
% country to do as much work. on the 70;
'sn ne thatH hoy and that be wast the vi
naaiest eater he ever SAW 1,2.E, .r III,
Az Old man who had emphasized, this bo
fought ~ his life above. all others went | tu,
"a meat market and decided to eontept | ,al
lasef .Wstha bene for hopp. re. asked. ] b
e $, market mapE-a big. fat, ,pytelnnan 20
NY and good patBred-zzthe fslee Of a In
'ne. which hs eyed wlstfpITy The mar hil
y Nan told him nothing at all; take | III
!. bone along # he wanted it. The al, hi In;
any nv was little hard Of hearing, BIZ ain
: hand to his ear and asked. Af,an1tM sv.