Milford chronicle., 1903-03-06


to be suppliants after the Bread o
Life when their own granaries are full
Of winter supplies a;3d their thrashin,
floors crowded with tie thrashers beat
ing and bruising the grain.
Rich man, I would like to speak 4,
few plain, blunt words to you. Ther,
are certain blessings that money can
not buy First, it cannot buy health
Money may enable the consumptive tC
i've among the flowers, and it may
prolong an invalid's earthly life. but in
the broad sense, money cannot buy
health. If money could buy health
William Mckinley would never have
uled. If money could buy health. the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt would never
nave struggled on as a helpless invalid
and been carried out to the tomb when
yet a young man. If money was all
powerful. that Broadway merchant
would have recovered his sight when,
! Il few years ago, he offered $1,000, 900
to any surgeon whose knife would cut
his curtain of the night IN twain.
Love Cannot BE BOught.
: Neither will money buy love. Money
may buy sycophancy. 1t may make
servants and so called friends bow and
, cringe before us, but the songstress of
love is not a hireling who sings her
seraphic strains to the jingling accom-.
paniment of golden coins. True love
is Won by the heart, not by the purse
True love is found smiling as winsome-
" in a cottage as in a palace. Neither.
y rlch man, can you with money buy
your way into heaven. If you have no
time to seek God in his house on earth.
you will not be able to find Christ in
mansions in the skies. If you do not
honor your Saviour before men. nei-
ther will Christ honor you before the
angels, who are now assembled about
the great white throne of the celestial
city. How much did he leave?" asked
a gentleman in reference to a certain
deceased rich man. ..He left every
thing" was the answer. His shroud
had no pocket, SO far as l could see."
So, rich man, you will take before the
judgment seat of Christ not what you
now hold in yonr hand, but what you
have in your heart. Therefore, it is
very important that you do not with |
fatal self cOmplacency as to your i
wealth and social prestige and your
ownership of mortgages and bonds and |
land titles blind your eyes to the i'm
portance Of going to the gospel ban
1nat
But another knock is heard at the
front door of the good mans house. A
second letter of regret is handed in.
This letter goes something like this:
My dear friend. l know you have
made great preparations for me to-
light, but l cannot come am a
mall farmer and have just bought a
-oke of oxen to do my spring blowing,
md l must 90 and do it," Or the letter
will read as follows: My dear friend,
cannot come tonight | have just
ought five yoke of oxen, and l intend
o hire myself out to the different
armers to help them do their spring
lowing. We must make money while (
re can. And even if l could get
Trough my work in time to come |
rOuld be so tired that could not en- {
~ your good things. pray thee have
le excused" In other words. that S
tock purchaser was going around as |
le modern owners of some baling ma c
hines go from farm to farm to pack |
le hay, or as the owners of some of t
le modern thrashing machines in the l
lral districts cut down their neigh t
Drs' grain upon a percentage basis. p
Whom in modern life does this stock c
vner represent? He symbolizes the p
doctor or lawyer or small n
ercEant or manufacturer or mechan- b
or salaried employee engaged in a h
lily struggle for a livelihood. He 5
presents. as Matthew Henry we'll II
rote, the man with 1.-THE inordinate d.
re and concern about this world Al
lich keep him from Christ and his Ol
ace" He represents the father and az
sband who on Saturday night says: 1
Veil, l have worked hard all the al
aek,.. l am too tired to go to church ra
morrow and do Gods work. 1t is -
well enough to think about religion,
t the simple fact is, in this strenuous -,
rthly life l must look after my busi- -,
IS and keep looking after it all the -
ne." He represents the business -
III who ut first does not intend to do -
Ong, but. little by little. he allows 80
business to crowd out his duties to a.,
rist. First. lie gives up prayer meet -, 10
; on account of business; then his g. -,
ly reading Of the Bible; then his ~
nday services. Little by little he = 10
Ows himself to drift away from God e..
til at last the invitation to the gos- 49, -
banquet falls upon unheeding ears. 70
he inOrdinate desire eforaccumulating 80. 80
alth has destroyed many and many -
immortal soul A few score years -,
} a steamer crowded with passen- 20
S was pushing its way over the wa ~.
5 of the Mississippi river Upon the ~. ~
k were Il great number of CalifOr- -
miners returning from the gold - -
is OF the west. Suddenly that &c,
amer struck sunken wreck and -
nediately began to sink. The wom- .Iii ~