The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-26
REV. MR. POTEAT
 SORRY FOR RICH
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 eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.
 Will we observe this young man and then take this lesson for ourselves? The young man imagined himself near to being model Christian, but he was mistaken. Jesus put riches and re- ligion before the young man, telling him to choose between them. The ser vice which he rendered to this young man was to point out his mistake about himself. He just said Now we will see,' and he put riches and re- ligion before him and you know the rest, Do you carry your religion Into your predominating interest? If a mans religion Is genuine 1t will show Itself where he lives, rather than In some corner of his life. I want to give you two illustrations. There was young man who was undoubtedly an example. He went regularly to church. He was upright and out and out, a worthy member of the church. All people supposed that he must be right with God while it was money that filled his life.
 l have friend who wrote me a letter not long ago. He said: T want to be a good man. I want to grow in the grace of God. He was of high Financial standing, a heavily salaried man. He has very large property. Now don't you see that man wanted to grow in grace while he was growing in selishness. He thought that he could buy grace by going to Sunday school, while he was growing selfish tn his greed of property. I wrote him: You have got to carry your religion into the field of predominating inter- est, You do not live your life in Sun day school. You are there for only an hour or two. You do not live your life in church. The handling of money would cover larger area in my friends life.
 There was 9 man out In Illinois who was asked what his business was. He said that he was a Christian. Have JOG UNOA ClAhClt yOuISGlI llIdl uu6SLIOIls ( If not wish you would do so now. l am talking to these young business men and boys here who are soon to be out in the business world. Ask that question and if possible bring your church life into your business life Let 1t control your work.
 Business men have to take hold of ha oc Hni of T4 proposed that a party of business men shall take a ship at San Francisco and as a commission of business look the whole wide world over in regard to it's religion. Here, my brothers, Is an Illustration to men of the benefit of having every soul in touch with God.
 William Burns died in China and when they inventoried his estate they found a Chinese testimonial and candle stick in it and some other trinket. I do not remember it. William Burns left a shower of light behind him. Riches are of no avail when sickness comes and you are racked with pain and facing death. It makes no dif- ference if the house is a palace and the bed is of mahogany or hammered brass, or gold, or that the curtains are of fan1ask, but in such an hour it is the life that comes before us and noth- ing can dispel the gloom of the death chamber and worth must be estimated in terms of character rather than terms of money.
 When you ask mans worth, do you mean his worth in character or how much property is he worth? You must estimate worth in terms of char acter like the young woman who went west and wrote back home that she had married a man worth a million and a little later she came home with her husband and he took job at $1O a week. Then the amazed neighbors said "Why how is this? We heard you were going to marry a man worth million dollars" She answered, q would rather marry a man worth a million in character and nothing in money than to marry man worth a million dollars and not worth anything in character"
 Now I am going to tell the children fairy story. Once upon time there was a fairy and she met a man and she said to him; q have a purse here which always has ducat in it. As soon as you take out one, another comes in it's place" The mans inter- est arose at once. q will give you this purse on one condition. He said -'Name the condition, and she said: T will give you this purse on the con- dition that you do not spend a penny of the money until you have prepared to throw the purse away" The man agreed to this, and took the purse. Then wondering if this was true he took out ducat and immediately an- other one came in it's place, and he kept on taking out money and filled all his pockets. After they were filled he began to throw the money on the floor just as fast as he could. On and on he went, piling it up around him, He found he was getting hungry, but could not waste the time to eat and redoubled his efforts. Now what do you think? The man starved to death taking gold pices out of that purse Have you ever seen anything like that? I state that the love of money grows upon money.
 Let us take the matter seriously. A man has no right to have reputation of generosity who has held on until death, and then 1t turns out in his will that he has given $5,000 to the church. What are the uses of money? I would say men hoard it and use it to make South Carolina. who has for. years bought more land to plant more cot ton, to buy more land to plant more cotton, to buy more land. l asked him why he staYed in that lonesome nlaca