Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-03-26
MONEYS MODERN INFLUENCE.

MONEYS MODERN INFLUENCE.
Editor News: Ye writer will say
something regarding money, as it
seems to be in every issue. Dirt has
been defined as matter out of place.
This helps us to understand why mon
ey is the most necessary part of the
machinery of all civilized life and is
so powerful an element of evil as we'll
as good. 1t depends upon where you
find tin the bank, in the purse, or
in the cash drawer in the temperance
society or in the relief fund. Money
in al these places is good thing, but
money in the heart is where it does
not belong. 1t is matter out of place.
The heart typifes the love center of
life, and in that love center money has
no right to reign as king. When it
tries to do so, it loses its good quail
ties and becomes just so much filth.
This is the reason that the love of
money is the root of all evil. Not
money itself, but the love of it, is
what we are warned against. The
passion for gain that enslaves our
Rockefellers and other millionaires,
who cannot enjoy their wealth; the
craze for accumulation, for boarding,
the fever for piling up riches that saps
vitality, kills sympathy and dries up
the milk of human kindness, making
| the very blood in the veins first rush
| in tumultuous torrent of excitement,
! then run cold and sluggish as the mi
| ser first counts his gain with glee and
then looks upon the needs of his broth
er man with icy indifference. This
placing of money on the throne in our
hearts is wrong. 1t is the same sin of
which those Of old were guilty, who
bought and sold in the temple until
driven out by the scourge of small
cords welded by One whose indigna-
ton was all the more terrible that it
was so rarely seen. Ye are the temple
| of the living God. In the heart of
sins fortress are the devices planned
leading into that most fatal of all
traps, the licensed liquor saloon. 9th
er evils may have their seed time and
harvest, but the liquor traf1ic's crops
is continually to be seen. From Janu-
airy until December this revolving crop
of drunkards is being harvested. The
supply never runs short. A million
uUlldIS Wutllu 10 d largo 5bln W pun
down the Threats of a christian nation
in any beverage that does harm and
only harm, but just think a moment
Of twelve hundred and fifty millions
thus wasted in our country every year.
This is an accurate estimate of the
money expended annually for intoxica-
ting liquors in America; to say moth
ing of the crimes and accidents result
ing. A man sometimes feeling wear
led steps into a saloon to get glass of
something to stimulate him, and some
times it happens that they see he has
got good amount of money on hand
and they will dope him, take his mon
ey and get him out of the way. II he
dies it is all right If he gets over it,
it is all the same, for he never knows
where he got his dope.
Number one at his best is well
worth knowing. This is true say
ing 1t is true that each life has its
peculiar temptations, but it is also
true that with the temptation God has
provided way of escape that We may
be able to bear it. But at times somt
get too fractions. Then they are lis
tening to Satan's message and blame
some one else as being the cause o.
their misfortunes. A man may say
He did not treat me right. IN pay
him for it, but that is Satan's mes
sage. He may say, did you SCI
our merchant weigh his hand to-
when you got that coffee, or she lack
ed some of giving you good measure il
that cloth you got. just measure i
2 and you will see. Now, this is tn
way one half of the world is doing to
day, putting all the blame on the 9th
err fellow, when if he would think fol
= a moment he is the one that is out o
repair and not the other fellow. Sci
3 is the worst enemy we have and
9 loose tongue or one tied in the middl
= and loose at both ends we should b
v careful to manage. Some claim to b
= christians and give parties and bo
| suppers and talk slightingly abou
their fellow men, and if they happe
| to give some person dollar to he'll
: them along they never get tired of tell
! ing someone about it, Such, in tn
= sight of God, are in worse shape tina,
. they would be if they had not give
i one penny. So You see, the love {
5 money dips down in the hearts of som
so deep it destroys human sympathy
: Some people are peculiar, even whe
h brothers of family. l have see
e some brothers that would not aid eac
r other in time of distress. Then, o
t the other hand have seen brother
. that helped each other whether sick G
e not, but we see nowadays every thin
d is run by money; even what preach
7. ing we hear, except a few preacher
{, that God has sent to preach to the pee
/ pie without money and without pric,
Win say in' conclusion, throw a
malice that You have towards your fe
bowman aside, and if you can't sa
something good, do not say anything
|. Help your fellow men. When yo
s know be needs help 90 not wait fl
V him to ask for it, You can find OF
q without being asked for help If yO
lie know, and do not administer to the
IS needs, God holds You responsible f,
ic it and for bearing your money so clio.
TO your heart UNCLE BLUE.
Tatasville Tenn