The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1902-11-21
OUR SUNDAY SERMON.
Money-Its Uses and abuses.

there must, in the very nature {
things, be desire and a scramble 70
it.
The bible says that money is tn
root of all evil" bat it lays Its grea
objection to the miser, the one VIII
boards his wealth and bows down an,
worships before it, and it rings on
also its anathemas upon the shiftles
and the slothful man who buries hi
money in the ground, thereby takins
il out of the channels of circulation
and destroying its value.
The Lord likened the kingdom Of
heaven" to a man travelling in fal
country, who called his servants and
! delivered unto them his goods.
Christ goes on to say, "And unto
one he gave five talents, TO another
two, and to another one, etc.
Then he that received five talents
went and traded with the same and
made them other five talents"
And likewise he who had received
two, he also gained other two"
"But, he who had received one went
and digged 10 the earth and hid his
Lords money"
Further along in the chapter He
commended the two who had increas-
ed their earnings and said that they
were emitted to "enter into the joys
of their Lord"
But, unto the one who had buried
his talent in the ground He reprOach-
ed him for being wicked and slothful
and commanded that il should be
taken from him and given unto the
one who had the ten talents.
Here, We have direct lesson that
money, to be of service to the world,
must be kept i'm the avenues of trade
kept continually on the move, so it
can be fruitful in bestowing its bless.
ings upon all through whose hands il
passes, like the river watering the
parched earth in its meanderings or
the rainbow rejecting its beauty in the
heavens.
We rejoice that there are very few
misers in this busy age of the worlds
history.
1t is an age pregnant with colossal
industrial enterprises. The world has |
never before seen anything like it.
Industries now that require nine
figures to express in dollars their mag
litude il nothing out of the usual.
Great bridges span our rivers, great
ships pillow our seas, great locomotives
ross our continents, aud great canals
Ire bringing the worlds traffic closer
o our doors.
AND the men at the head of these
treat enterprises are not forgetful of
heir duties TO the less successful of
heir fellows or the great debt they
I'VE to the blessings of free govern
nent, which Mr.. Andrew Carnegie
.laims is worthy the gratitude of the
b hole earth.
Free schools and free libraries and
.reat colleges and other beneficient
are being endowed by
hese men of gigantic wealth to
tlr the latent ambition of the masses
{ our people in order to more surely
erpetuate our republican form OF
government and make il a beacon
ght for the nations of the earth.
Ex-senator Call very truly says that
e recognizes the great good that can
ONE of great wealth when properly
sed i'm beneticient works and cites as
J. J. Hill, president of the
rest northern railroad; J. Pierpont :
lorgan, aud Thomas johnson, of
leveland; hut he inveighs against {
IT. Flagler, of our own state, and vet y
lr. Flsgler has not kept his wealth :
iie-he has not buried nor been
Othful with his talents.
He has come into new country 7
nd has built more than three hun. e
red miles of railroad into what the {
'orld believed was wilderness and :
waste and along this highway has
llit luxurious palaces for the enter t