Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-06-07

IlItll anu NOIti WIN IOn6 lOi HOW'ls
will we not take this text as its sym
Dol, Seek We first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness and all these
things will be added unto your" That
means that the gift OF the Holy Spirit
can be yours.
Spiritual Development.
But full wardrobes and cupboards
and assured homesteads symbolically
mean more TO me than even power
They represent mental and physical
and spiritual development. They repre-
sent in one sense freedom from care.
In the next sense they represent
growth, expansion, increased dome OF
forehead, healtbful lungs. steady heart
beat They represent all TINT IL best
and noblest in the physical and mental
and spiritual domain. cannot press
home my thought better than by draw
ing two or three verbal pictures.
1t Is early morning still almost dark,
mining regions Of Pennsylvania. IN
little cabin miner and his family are
taking a hurried breakfast. At half
past you can see the long lines of
working people heading for the mines
and the breakers. Why are you TAX
inE your two boys along with you. Mr..
Miner?" you ask. TT IS too early for
school yet. These boys are pale and
thin. They do not get enough sunlight.
You must not lot them study so hard"
Study hard! Sunlight" answers the
miner. These boys Of mine do not go
to school. They are earning their liv-
ing the same as | am. We have II
large family In this hut, aud all who
can must go out and help to earn
the food they eat the clothing they
wear and help pay the house rent"
"What. DO these boys work for live
lihood? Why, one Of them is so small
his dinner pail almost touches the
ground as he carries 1t along" Yes,
they work. All boys in miners huts
are compelled to work for their living"
go into the breaker, and there find
hundreds Of little boys all crouched up.
picking out the good coal as It passes
along by their side. The air is I'M
healthy. 1t is laying the foundations
Of the miners asthma" The hours
are long and tresome. The breaker
boys" who should now be at school
and who would make fine men if It
We're not for the money question, are
being stunted In their growth. All, the
pity Of #. Do you not see how the
food question, the clothing question,
the house rent question. can be an ac-
cursed bulvark against physical, men
tai. moral and spiritual development?
The Real Money Question.
How often have We heard this state
mcnt made Ivy men and women: "Oh,
how | wish this daily bread question
were not holding me in its wise. know
l am growing TO look like my type
writer, or my yardstick. or my kitchen
stove or my sewing table. How I
would love to travel and see the Won
Gers of the world. How | would love
to make the great thoughts Of the great
books speak TO me. How ! would love
to develop my painting talent or my
musical talent or my natural history
talent. But Just as | was about to en-
ter college father died. Mother was
left penniless. Then I had to go TO
work TO become a mere bread earning.
clothing earning and house rent earn
Ing machine" Grasp you not the sym
Dol? With the cupboard and wardrobe
and house renting question anXieties
eliminated from your life, do you not
see how in Christ you can grow and
grow and expand and come to the full
physical and mental and spiritual and
moral development for which God in
tended you:
Let us bring this lesson little near
Consecrated your life to money making.
At first you said you had to DO it to
make n living. Now you do It because
your mercenary habits have the mas
terry Of YOU. You save every penny YOU
Can. You are n miser. Your face shows
It. Your mind, your body, your whole
life is warped. You cannot enjoy a pic
ture gallery. Music is to you a perfect
bore. The only columns you love 10
read are the stock market columns.
lou are Il mere money making ma
chine. Now, compare your developed
life to that Of n man like Dwight L..
Moody. He had all the capabilities
OF financial success. He had them In
greater measure than you had. But
one day he turned his back upon the
store and went and knelt in his bed
room and said; Lord. l give my life
up TO thee. | shall follow thee and thee
alone. Thy will is to be my will" Was
oped in better way than hy cringln >
before the shrines of Midas golden
image?
True Development.
Twist the Kaleidoscope little, Yo'
are woman. a society queen. 70
nave Travelled abroad. The finest boo,
Of the day are on your library shell.
You feel you can converse with any
man or woman alive and not be aSham-
ed of yourself. But tell me, with all
your education, have YOU the true de-
yelopment your sainted mother had.
who years ago surrendered her life
and all into the hands of the Master
Place your photograph alongside of
her old fashioned dnguerreotype. Com
pare the two faces. Your mother was
no ignoramus. Her eyes show it; her
lips show 1t. But behind that noble,
sweet face there Is something which
your face lacks. The beauty of a true
soul is there. 1t is not in your face.
You are not we'll developed; you are
not spiritually developed. You cannot