The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-17
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 Was not that the history, rich Chicago merchant of the first results of your mathematical calculations on the Satur- day night of the second week in last Jan uary? But what about the second cal culation you made that important night As you sat there in your easy armchair you began to dream about the past. You began to wonder if all this endless strug- gle for worldly success really paid. As you dreamed you thought of the many nights when, unable to sleep, you had tossed about your hot pillow and thought how the business world was trying to l, drive you to the financial wall. even as some man with the death marks upon his cheek in his old age may be feeced of his all. You thought how your very best mo- tives had always been impugned. And then, strange to say, instead of gloating over your past financial success as the fro flickered lower and lower an unseen power made you write upon a broad sheet of white paper this problem What shall it profit man if he shall gain the whole world and lose ms own soul?" And as you studied that problem you were com peled to write after it a word of seven letters. You wrote that one word in let ters of fire. Nothing" Nothing" Nothing Am I wrong, financial mag l Hdte, III stating today thou art not Tar from the kingdom of God?"
 My hearers may think have overdrawn the picture in asserting that worldly suc- cess from a mere selfish standpoint never pays and that only the Christ life is the happy life. Well, then, to illustrate whether mere earthly success is a satis- flying success or the reverse let me read 1 to you a enlogy delivered lately In refer ence to that Warwick of American states manship. that president maker, Marcus A. Hanna. In the memorial meeting held | in the senate chamber a short time ago 1 Senator Scott, Senator Hanna's intimate , friend, arose and spoke these words: MT. President, l shall never forget one early morning when Senator Hanna handed me New York paper containing a cartoon of himself. pictured as a huge monster, clad in a suit covered over with dollar marks smoking an immense cigar and tramplng under foot women and children, with their eyes protruding from their sockets and their skeleton forms writhing in agony. After l looked at it a moment he said to me: Scott, that hurts. have tried all my life to put myself in the other fel- Jews place. I have tried to help those in need and Tighten the burdens of those less fortunate than myself. Yet I am here held up to the gaze of the world as murderer of women and children. l tell you it hurts And, Mir President, look ing up into that manly face I saw the tears coursing down his cheeks as he turned and silently walked away"
 You think worldly success can bring true happiness? If it could. why did it not bring happiness to James G. Blaine the past century? Murat Halstead re- lates how he went to see MT. Blaine in the Fifth avenue hotel, New York. The death pallor was on his cheek. In a few weeks his broken heart was to cease to beat. MT. Blaine sat looking into the blazing fire. Murat Halstead could not say a word. His heart was too full. After the two friends sat thus for a short time, MT. Blaine heaved a deep sigh as he said, "Oh. Halstead, I could have stood it all if I had not lost my two boys" He was finding then, as Hanna found, and as a host of famous men have found. that happiness and true satisfaction cannot be obtained from the world The world misrepresent them, ridicules them and decries them, and, whether it gives them its prizes or not, it wounds and tortures them.
 Happiness Not in Wealth.
 Oh, rich man! I appeal to your ex- perence. Have you not realized that hap piness is not in wealth? Have there not come times in your life when you have felt the money and honor and power
 
 are disappointed with your life. Turn to Christ; who says to such as you, He that drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst again." Come to him. Thou art not far from the king dom of God.
 Almost saved Yes, I know it. Why? For weeks, perhaps. you have been lying prostrate with a dangerous sickness near the dividing line, the crossing of which means the recreation and the spirituali- zation and the redemption of your life. That sick bed means to you in a spiritual sense. what an invalids bed meant in physical sense to him sick of the palsy who was laid at Christ's feet. In the sec ond chapter of Mark we read about the wonderful incident which took place in Capernaum. No sooner did the people of that city hear that Jesus had come than the multitudes began to gather about him. They crowded into the room where