News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-06-28
Realns Pastorate

ne lOOk IOF us tOpiC IOE bu6 ulOTu
ing sermon, 1.-THE Two Kinds of Treas
ures." From the text found in Mat
thew 6, 10 21. He said in part:
The world, with it's pomp and gilt
ter has ever fascinated men. lnevery
age and cline they have freely giver
their hearts, minds, talents, love anC
often their lives to obtain the posi-
blities the world has to offer. Fame
glory, love of prestige, wealth has
lured men out into the world to lay
up treasures for themselves. They
would seek fame that the world may
know them; they would have theil
name resound from every lip; they
would strive for distinction and en-
roll themselves on the calander O
time. But what is fame, does it per
petuate the life of the future; does il
develop the soul? Nay. Fame is but
transient, it vanishes with the man
1t may perhaps for a while yield
happiness and satisfaction; but it has
never been the means ofperpetuating
mans future, nor has it ever devel
oped the soul. What is SO foolish a.
the chase of fame, how vain is the
prize, how impotent our aim? And
even before the completion OF this
earthly career, fame often flies, leav-
ing man stranded, having been rob-
bed of his desired harvest. Fame is
en- undertaken; it pays but lutte at
tention to the living; but bedlzens
the dead, furnishes them out their
funeral and follows them to the
grave.
Look at the page of history and
see what men have gained by laying
up the TIRE assures of eartbly fame.
The key note of the life OF Napoleon
was fame. This was his treasuTeand
we may truly say his heart was with
it. He gave his heart and soul to ac-
quire that one end. Princes, Kings,
and even the Pope, with his church
dignities, bowed their heads before
him. His fame brought him a great
amount of satisfaction and tenn
porary happiness. But what was his
life-his fame-did it mould his soul ?
Did it give him heretage in the
great beyond? Mans true fame must
strike from his own good deeds. This
man of Jena, Austriliz', Wagram
dazzled the world. But what signiti,
canoe have these great victories in
heaven? Very little, | dare say.
Death makes no conquest of this con-
queror; for now he lives in fame
though not in lite.
Many men have sought for glory
and it's dazzling splendor and have
found it. But these treasures are
carnal and their compensations are
also material. Glory is like a circle
in the water, which never ceasetb to
enlarge itself till by broad spreading,
1t disperses to naught. Here again
men build not for the future; they do
not lay up their treasures in heaven.
Even as men have sought fame and
glory, so men would gain ease for
themselves end children by obtaining
wealth. This is true of individuals
and of nations. Rome decayed BIZ.
cause wealth accumulated. Spain
decayed because her citizens reap4d
the riches of the American colonies b.
Wealth has never given pure happE-
ness, but often hastened misery
Wealth in the gross is death. 1t i9
of the earth earthly, it passeth with
the man.
Can you tell me anything that is
going to last? Paul in his letter to
the Corinthians had no charge
against earthly treasures. All be
said about them was that they would
not last. They we're great things,
but not supreme things. Drumm0nd
says: Nothing that the world con-
tains is worth the life and consecra-
ton of an immortal soul"
How then shall we obtain for our
selves treasures that are heavenly
and will prove themselves to be
permanent. The answer lays in this
fact, are we sending up lasting ma
terial? We can never lay up for our
selves treasures in heaven, unless on
earth we live lives of integrity. Let
us learn that it means more in the
sight of our Heavenly Father, If we
give our love to the poor, If we minis.
ter unto the sick, speak words of con-
ISOLATION to the dying; then If we give
our lives to lay up earthly treasures.
Yea, there are climbers after social
standing, climbers who make wealth
their goal, but all these climb after
material gains, all of which are per-
ishable. There are also climbers
after happiness and all it brings; not
thehappiness that wealth, social dis
tinction and talent may bring, but
the happiness of being co-workers
with God. The heavenly treasures
are these: Love, benevolence, virtue,
unselfishness, Justice, truth, generos-
ity. These are prime requisites and
they are not perishable. Build there
fore firmly, on strong ground where
the storms of secular things may not
play havoc with their damaging
powers.