Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-07-17
A SERMON ON MONEY.
DR.. Talmage Arraigns Those Who
Live Beyond Their Means.
Causes of Great Financial Disturb
ances show - Extravaganza the
Cause of Most DefnIcatIons-
Meeting Ones Obligations.
ICOpyrIght. l9Ol. by LouIs Klopsch. \. Y.

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the causes of the great financial dis
turbances which take place every few
years and arraigns the people who live
beyond their means; text, Jeremiah
17:11: LAS the partridge stitch on
eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
getteth riches, and not by right, shall
leave them in the midst of his days and
at his end shall be a fool"
Allusionis here made o a well-known
fact in natural history. If partridge
or quail or a robin brood the eggs of
another species, the young will not
stay with the one that happened to
brood them, but at the first oppor-
tunity will assert with their own spe-
cies. Those of us who have been
brought up in the country have seen
the dismay of the farmyard hen, hav-
ing brooded aquatic fowls, when after
awhile they tumble into their natural
element, the water. SO my text Sug-
gests that "a man may gather under his
wings the property of others, but it
will after awhile escape. 1t will leave
The man in "A sorry predicament and
make him feel very silly.
What has caused all the black days
of financial disasters for the last 60
years? Some say it is the credit sys-
TEN. Something back of that. Some
say it is the spirit of gambling ever and
anon becoming epidemic. Something
back Of that. Some say ii is the sud
den shrinkage in the value OF securi-
ties, which even the most honest and
intelligent men could not have fore
seen. Something back Of that. / will
give you the primal cause of all these
disturbances. 1t is the extravaganza
OF modern society which impels "a man
TO spend more money than he can hon
estly make, and he goes into wild spec
ulation in order to get the means for
inordinate display, and sometimes the
man is to blame and sometimes his wife
and oftener both. Five Thousand dol
lars income, $4,000, $2O. 900 income. is
not enough for a man to keep up the
style of living he proposes, and there
fore he steers his bark toward the
maelstrom. Other men have suddenly
snatched up $4,000 or 100000. Why
not he? The present income of the
man not being large enough, he must
move heaven and earth and hell to
catch up with his neighbors Others
have country seat; so must he 9th
ers have palaitial residence; so must
he.
Extravaganza is the cause of all tne
defalcations of the la st 80 wears. and if
you Will go through the history of a II
the great panics and the great fuan-
clal disturbances, no sooner have Won
found the story than right back of it
you viii find the story of how many
horses the man had, how many car
rlages, how many banquets the man
gave always, and not one exception
for the last 60 years. either directly or
indirectly extravaganza the cause.
Now for the elegances and the re-
finements and the decorations of life. /
cast my vote. While am CONSIDERING
this subject a basket of flowers i
handed in-fowers paradisiacal in
their beauty. White Gala with green
background of begonia. A cluster of
heliotropes nesting in some geranium.
Sepal and perianth bearing on them
the marks of Gods finger When
see that basket of flowers. they per-
suade me that God loves beauty and
adornment and decoration. God
might have made the earth so as to
supply the gross demands of sense. but
lett 1T without adornment or attrac.
ton. Instead of the variegated colors
Of the seasons the earth might have
worn an unchanging dull brown. The
tree might have put forth its fruit
without the prophecy OF leaf or bios
som. Niagara might have come down
I'm gradual descent without thunder
and winged spray.
Look out OF your window any morn
ing after there has been dew. and
see whether God loves Jewels. PM
crystal OF snow under a microscope and
see what God thinks of architecture
Hod commanded the priest of oldcn
time TO have his robe adorned with q
wreath OF gold and the hem of his par-
mebt TO be embroidered i'm pomepron-
ates. The earth sleeps and God blank
cts IL with the briIliants OF the NIGHT
sky. The world wakes. and God
washes 10 from the FURNISHED Iaver ~
me sunrise. So ! have not much pa
thence with man who talks as tborob
decoration and adornment and tbceIe-
gances Of life are sin when tbev are
DlNIhe'y recommended. But there f.
a line TO be drawn between adorprept
and decorations that We can af,rd
and those We cannot afford. and when
man crosses that line he becomes
cuIpaoIe ] cannot tell YOU what's eN-
lra'agant for you. You cannot fell me
what is eNtrayagaut for me. What ia
right for queen may be- squandering
Tor duchess. What may be ecouom-
zeal for YOU. man with larger incofu,
Will be wicked for me. with smaller A..
come. There is no iron rule on This
subject Every man before God and
on his knees must judge what is ex.
TavaRance, and when q man goes into
expenditures beyond his mean. he
eNtra'agant. When q man buys an,
ihIng ne cannot pay for, be is extrata-
CANT.
There are families iu AID our cities
VINO can hardly pay their rcutand who
owe all the merchant. BOO the neigbbor-