Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-03-07

house of representatives introduced
a bill with the purpose to prevent
danger from infected currency by
providing that new paper money
should be continually taken mp and
destroyed. We are dreadfully afraid
OF germs that impart disease TO the
body, but We are careless OF the
things that spread moral disease.
The member who introduced the
bill which | have mentioned seemed
TO forget that new money as well
as old money can become infected.
Morally speaking new money seems
to be more frequently infected than
old money. The recently rich" show
more yulgarity and less conscience
about money than people who have
been longer used to IT,
Both old money and new money
boarded I'm selfishness Is tainted.
and moreover. SC is tainted quickly.
by the very process of boarding. II
the Holy Scriptures are to be ac-
cepted as the final rule of faith and
morals men are as truly bound to
distribute their own wealth wisely
and benevolently as they are Obliged
TO abstain from touching the prom
erty OF others dishonesty. one may
diminish the sum of human good in
the world by privation through
selfishness as easily as he may in
crease the sum OF human sin by rob
berry. AS great an amount OF HUI
man we'll being may be sacrificed by
an act of wilful selfishness as by the
commission or an overt dishonesty.
A man may sin by neglecting to pre-
vent evil as well as by producing
evil. Such sins can not be defined
and punished by human law. ana
the effort to do so generally pro-
ceeds from theorizers as selfish as
the sinners whom they wish to cor
rect. But God who weigheth the
spirits of men can and will deal
Justly by such wrongs OF unscrupu.
lous selfishness. The Almighty sees
that the distance from selhshness to
stealing, from covetousness TO rob
berry, is not so great after all, ana
at most is only difference I'm de
gree and not in kind
The only worthy effects" of any
human life is found in the results
OF good accomplished upon other hui
man lives. All the rest is a matter
OF no real consequence.
Providence has many ways for
Furnishing selfish greed even In this
world. have read somewhere
story to this effect: An eagle had
a nest on crag which overlooked a
shrine in the valley below. one day
a worshiper laid an Offering on the
altar, and while he was absorbed in
his devotions the eagle swooped
down and took the flesh of the offer
ing in it's talons and bore It away TO
the young in the nest on the crag.
But a live coal from the altar chung
to the meat, and being deposited in
the nest consumed the young as they
story is a parable That which Is
taken from under the hand OF con
secration and devoted TO sclhshness
consumes the households which 70
is designed to feed and fatten How
next to impossible It is to transmit
fOrtunel How almost impossible
it is for rich men TO bring up chill
dren able to keep the money they
inherit or reflect honor upon the
parent who foolishly leaves them
with wealth. In our country where
no law of entail comes I'm 20 diver,
and disguise the operation OF cause
and effect I'm the matter OF wealth
most fortunes run to waste and
shame in the second generation. II
were well If men considered that I'm
such results often rich mans real
effects" are found.