Connecticut western news., 1901-07-18

times talk eloq;:cuuy about ;ne Cnrfs- ,ian church and about civilization, ex- bending everything on themselves and aothing on the cause of God and they ,rack the back of their Palais Royal glove In trying to hide the one cent they put In the I.ard's treasury. What ,n apportionmelV Twenty thousand lollars for ourselves and one cent for God! Ah, my friends, this extrava- gance accounts for great deal or what he cause of God suffers
 Funeral Dissertation.
 And the dissertation goes on even to the funeral day. You know very well that there are men who die solvent, but the expenses are so great before they get under ground they are insolvent There are families that go into penury in wicked response to the demands of this day. They put in casket and tomb stone that which they ought to put In bread. They wanted bread; you gave them a tombstone.
 One would think that the last two ob- ligations people would be particular about would be to the physician and
 
 two last obligations, those two profes- sions are almost always cheated. They send for the doctor in great haste, and he must come day and night. They send for the undertaken amid the great solemnities, and often these two men are the very last to be met with con- pensation. Merchants sell goods, and the goods are not paid for. They take back the goods, am told. But there Is no relief In this case. The man spent all he had in luxuries and extravaganza while he lived, and then he goes out of the world and has left nothing for his family, nothing for the obsequies, and as he goes out of the world he steals the doctors pills and the undertaker's slippers. I was reading In New York paper an account of the obsequies in a family of very moderate estate, and the aggregate was $3,0OO. A man in New York of moderate estate dies. He has lived in extreme luxury. He departs this life. The family, desirous of keep ing up the magnificence, orders the fol lowing things. They were produced and never paid for to this day:
 Casket. covered with Lyons velvet. silver
 moldings ....................... ss5O Heavy paited handles es....................... 60 Solid silver plate, engraved in Roman letters 70 Ten linen scarfs .......................... l6O Floral decorations ........................ 225 Music and quartet choir at the house 40 Twenty carriages ............................ 1A0 Then 15 othAr important expenditures
 amounting to ............................ S36 Making an aggregate of.....................H,s ,s76
 And all that to get one poor mortal to his last home and never paid for! Swindled his family. Swindled the world. He is swindling 1t now. It is one of the great curses of this day, the extravaganza, the wicked extravagance, of the country.
 Must Account to God.
 And then look how the cause of God Is impoverished. Men give so much sometimes for their indulgences they have nothing for the cause of God and religion. Twenty-two million dollars expended in this country year for religious purpoSes; but what are the twenty-two millions expended for re- ltgion compared with the hundred mil- lions expended on cigars and tobacco
 
 lars spent for rum! So man who had a fortune of $750.0O0 or what amount ed to thac in London spent 1t all in in- dulgences, chiefly In gluttonies, and sent hither and yon for all the deli cacies and often had meal that would cost $1OO or soOO for himself. Then he was reduced to l guinea, with which he bought a rare bird, had 1t cooked in best style, ate 1t, took two hours for digestion, walked out on Westminster bridge and jumped into the Thames a small scale.
 Oh, my friends, let us take our stand asssnst the .xtravagances of society. Do not pay for things which are frivo- lous when you may lack the necessi- ties. Do not put one months wages or salary into trinket, just one trinket. Keep your credit good by seldom ask ing for any. Pay! Do not starve a whole year to afford one Belshazzar's carnival. Do not buy q coat of many colors and then In six months be out at the elbows. Flourish not. as some peo- pie I have known, who took apart ments at fashionable hotel and had elegant drawing rooms attached and then vanished in the night, not even leaving their compliments for the land lord. 1 tell you, my friends. In the day of Gods judgment we shall not only have to give an account for the way we made our money, but for the way we spent 1t. We have got to leave all the things that surround us now.
 Alas, if any of you in the dying hour felt like the dying actress who asked that the casket of jewels be brought to her and then turned them over with her pale hand and said, Alas, that I have to leave you so so0n!' Better In that hour have one treasure of heaven than the bridal trousseau of a Marie Antoinette, or to have been seated with Caligula at a banquet which cost It's thousands of dollars, or to have been carried to our last resting place with senators and princes as pallbearers. They that consecrate their wealth, their time, their all, to God shall be held In everlasting remembrance, while I have the authority of this book for announc- Ing that the name of the wicked shall rot.
 Copyright. 1901, Louis Klopsch. N. VI
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