The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-10-08

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to some extent to seek wealth, enough at
least to supply their needs. Beyond the
supply Of your wants, persent and pros
pective. the wisdom of accommodating
wealth depends entirely upon our pur-
pose and the use we intend to make Of
1t. Almost everything, l grant, depends
on money in a very important degree.
Schools, colleges, public institutions for
the Observation-Disclosures blind, deaf and
dumb feeble minded, the aged and in
firm, the orphan, the poor and helpless,
the sick-all such institutions, whether
supported by public or private bensvo-
lence, depend on money. The church, the
Sunday School home missions, all alike
depend on money, Civilization and the
kingdom of God on earth both depend
upon money for their progress. and as
men remember who 1t is that has said:
The silver and the gold are mine and
recognize His claims and are ready to
act on His standards in using their
wealth it is as wise for the man who
can create values and so gain honest
wealth, to do so, as 1t is for the man
who can create thought and make a 1T
erature, to do that. Not that l would
for Il moment admit that the dollar
equals the thought as Il mere possession;
but as an agent of good it may be the
mighticr of the two, because IL may make
many thoughts available, by giving hen!
an opportunity for effective expression.
HUNTING FOR WEALTH.
| But the great trouble with the world is
that men are not satisfied with rea-
sonablc amount of wealth; they are anX-
! ious to get all they can, and to keep all
/ they get. They set the getting OF wealth
/ before them as an end with no thought
of what they viii do with it when 1t Is
! gained-often with no intention Of doing
anything with 1t except to keep II and
to transmit it to their children. Tn" pur-
suit of great wealth under such cAudi-
tons Is not ennobling. 1t is the grOsses'
kind of breach OF TRUST. 1t reacts on
the man himself 1t makes him narrow
selfish, earthly, and shuts him out alto
gethcr from the best and sweetest pleas
lures of life. 1t makes genuine spiritual
ity an impOssiblity, for such II man
. loves the world" in exactly the sense in
which Jesus used the expression when he
/ said. IF "A man love the world, the love
of the Father is not in him" He has no
aspirations for anything better Tran
money. lie has no desire to make the
world better, no wish that the kingdom
of God shall come lie lives for money
keeps what he gets; and when he dies
and YOU wish to size up his immortdi
soul. you do it in the words: ''lie left
so much money" Yes, thank God, he
left it. He would have been glad 20 take
IL with him If he could, but his graspns
had to end at the grave, ana lie left IT,
whether to "A wise man or fool, he did
not know. Such an example Of success
full accumulation and selfish holding is
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tho young "A false ideal of life. 1t mis-
leads some; it embitters others, and it
blcsscs none. Better be poor all your
days than such a rich man who can look
! back over his life and see no generous
deed done for humanity 1t is such man
as these that make life so full of mate
! riulism and so destitute of true nobility.
DO not misunderstood me. If anything
great is to be accomplished, there must
be an accumulation of force. Accumula-
tion of learning, secured only by patient
study, to the exclusion of other work, is
necessary If great enterprises are TO be
carried to success. Accumulation of
wealth is necessary If great enterprises
are to be carried to success. What may
seem the merest sclishness in accumu-
lating, may prove to be the highest WIS
dom. He who was known as the miser oil
/ Marscilles was doubtless a disagreeablt
person and as he appeared to his fellow
citizens. a despicably selfish person, with
out even ordinary sympathy with men,
but when, at his death, II turned out
that his lifelong saving had not been be-
cause he loved money SO much, and TOOK
pleasure In merely accommodating II, but
because he desired to alleviate the suf'
fcrings OF the poor by providing for al
In the city an abundance of pure water
ana that he had left all his great wealth
To be used for that purpose, he was nc
longer miser. but philanthropist. The
only mistake the man made was in moi
giving his wealth and building the aque'
ducts while he lived. No wise man woulc
own the earth If he could but any wise
man might well wish to own enough o.
II to enable him to make the world nap
pier and better, and in so doing ne De
comes a benefactor of the race.
You remember the dissatisfaction whici
Shakespeare makes Hamlet feel at th'
human forgetfuness of the dead, ah'
he says that the great man who wouiI
be remembered a year after his aeati
must build churches, or suffer not think
ing on" But it Is not so today. VIII
no less reverence for God, and no lowe
idea OF his greatness, the present age il
coming TO understand that the grandes
temple in which the Almighty can dwell
on earth is not the great cathedral will
its lofty towers, its high embowere'
roof, but a well-trained, intelligent, high
minded man. So he who builds scho0
or endows college, in which men an'
women shall be developed for the work o
life, does a nobler service for humanit!
; than did the old cathedral builders o