The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-02

The Bible calls money Filthy Lucre." That is an ugly name for good thing. When we see how necessary 1t Is to the we'll being of all of us and how like pity to call 1t by such name. But 1t Is capable of great evil too, es- pecially to those who are greedy" af- ter 1t, or who greedily horde it. To of the gospel and church officers. It is filthy lucre."
 Money is not bad thing in itself. ''The love of money is a root of evil" horer, 1t "cries out" to heaven against its possessor. MT. Rockefeller, I take it, is a fine business man. He was a fine business boy, I learn, and con shown he was not greedy" for 1t has been the habit of his life to give
 away his money. Greedy people don't do that way. He gives because he loves to give,
 I have never seen a dollar of his money. I wonder if it is different from the ordinary dollar we poor mortals handle here in Alabama. have a piece of money money before me; me; It was IS has been and what it has been doing since it came out of the mint? Pos sibly the land where the ore was found was gotten possession of in fraudu- lent way. Maybe ehlaborer who risk ed his life in the dark mine to bring it to the light was cheated out of his wages and his poor wife and children were made to suffer. The Govern ment paid fifty cents or less for the ore, but stamped it as worth twice 1 nat amount Many people regard tha. as the biggest sort of a fraud.
 Maybe this dollar was stolen out of the mint and spent for liquor, under the influence of which the poor wretch killed his wife and his children be- came beggars. Maybe that was the beginning of the career of our dollar. In twelve months 1t had passed through thousand hands. many of them pol luted with the foulest crimes. Then 1t had a series of adventures among the good of the earth; It brought hap piness to a poor washer woman. The Christian grocer became possessed of it. One Sunday good man, whose heart was touched under an appeal from the messenger of heaven, cast it ringing into the contribution basket. How it's face was lit up as 1t took its place among the other pieces of various denominations. which were destined to make glad the heart of the Missionary! Noble soul that he was, though poor. he honored God with this substance and our dollar took its place in the preach CTS Tenth. In the distribution of his tithing, the dollar of which he writes wS~ given for oil to light up the sane tuary of God. On, on, through months and years 1t went its rounds until it became one of the $100.000 MT. Rocke~ feller offered to the M1SSion BOaru
 Imagine a wise Board of saintly men with microscopes, inspecting every dol lar to see if 1t was clean! Imagine them peering through telescopes which had the power to search out the de vious paths each one has travelled through the years of its pilgrimage. If a dollar can grow sad. imagine the sad ness of our dollar when 1t Is cast aside with others as unworthy to go into the Mission treasury, because 1t was stolen from the mint. had paid liquor bill, which turned the thief to a brute and caused him to kill his wife.
 The saintly old lunatics found out that the thief and murderer finally turned from his sins to a merciful God and now finds great joy and comfort in the service of God. though in the penitentiary for life for his crime.
 Their sentence is, that God can par don a thief and a murderer. but there is no forgiveness for a silver dollar Regeneration can change a servant of the devil into child of God; but a dollar, once it goes astray, has com mitted the unpardonable sin
 When the one hundred thousand have all passed under the miscroscope and telescope. not one has been found whose life has been faultless. If money can "cry out" not one of those shining dollars will be silent. We can't preach" they would say. but we can send the preacher on his way. We can feed the servant of God. his wife and his chill