The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-02

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sharks as any other kind ~ fish and
be not infreQueutIy happens that two
big financial sharks try To ~naIlu.r
each other. hay. seen snakes trying
to swallow each other. but they wera
snakes ANA hadn't learned tine art al
s~"dII'"lhs and being swallowed a ihs
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Love Of money makes havoc OF tha-
old time friendship which was consiG-
crate Of the rights OF ueighbors and IL
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II has wei nigh blottcd out the tralt-
ll"hs OF our early struggles Tor free
dtm. n paralIzcd that old time re-
llBlous sentiment .4hich made all men
q common brotherhood and the church
OF God a city Of refuge for the crring
ones. 1t has degraded manhood and
Womanhood and exalted stocks ANA
bonds to the place that mortals One
occuPird.li has torn the decalogua
fron-thc Bible and changed the gold
cl rule into q license To AXE from q
fellow MAJ all that ne has. and 10 Sd
cripple him that he cannot rise again.
1t has even warped justice. made a
coward of the patriot. lowered the
Slddhard of virtue and made an icicl"
OF lhat old tme b~roth"rlN low which
used 10 cement heart To heart and
made mOrtaIS reaIlze their klnship To
1od.
What is it that the love OF money viii
not make men do. or leave undone
Men who sell their souls for money
are dangerous people. They will not
only rob and steal. but they will Kill.
| used to hear a story to the effect
tina a may waylaid and killed another
man for Twenty-Five cents. He had
10 arudge against him; he was simply
hired to do the killing. and twenty
i've cents was the reward he got for
taking q life. While we shudder at the
reading of suCh q story we have to
admit that the love Of money is kill
ing by the wholesale. root of all
evil!' That is putting it very strong,
yet not too strong; for we can testify
. It's futhlullltSS. urn when WAY
SotVef we may, We see the strife COINS
on between the almighty dollar and
the forces of CHRIST, ana we are forced
70 the conclusion that the earned nina
which is enmity against God. is III
league With the dollar, and is ready to
90 its engage in all evil
ana IS only waiting for an opportunity.
But while that is true, it is also
true that ChrlStS adherentS are de-
termlned. They knoW the tide must
sooner or later, for the better.
satan seemingly trlumphed in Geth-
semane and on Calvary, but ON the
third morning there was a resurreC-
ton that put the hosts of hell to fiight.
The pendulum has swung very far
toward AL evil but let us hope it
''f
50 far away from God again. We are
passing through the most dangerous
period of our nations life, but we are
cheered by the fact that. in
cnufch n state. there are heroes OF
righteousness VINO stand by he dec
aIogue INC the sermon on the
whose determination is to win a victory
owe which angels shall rejoice ana
the Son of God shall applaud with Il
well done!"
Since / have raised the question Of
what the love of money has done and
is doing. | will give the reader some
instances of how it makes some men
do in a little way. OF course | can
not refer to all the incidents that
have seen or heard of: but must be
content with mentioning two or three.
Some wears ago / attended a con
ference i'm S~tatesville. \ brother
preacher wanted to buy an umbrella.
and went with him to q store. The
umbrella shown was q "dOllar'' one.
The preacher remarked hat he wished
a better one. costing a dollar and 4
half or two dollars. The merchant
said he had the very thing the preach