Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-24
WHEN MONEY TALKS.
Terse Comments Upon the Christian
Endeavor Topic for June 81, mis-
sionary pocketbooks.v II Cor. s:6-t5. |

Endeavor Topic for June 27. "Mis-
sonary Pocketbooks.v II Cor. s:6-t5.
A common saying has it that money
talks" True: but 1t speaks only the
language which 1t has been taught
The speech of money may be low.
coarse, sordid and selfish; or else it
may he lofty, fine. noble and loving. A
mans money will express the senti-
ments which he has impaired to it. He
may make 1t eloquent with words of
love and service, 50 that wherever it
goes bowed heads will be uplifted, dis
couraged hearts made to hope and
needs lives enriched. 1t is part of a
PERSONS proper work in life to teach
his money to talk wisely and helpfully.
We speak of long pocketbooks;
but of different and better sort are
the pocketbooks that reach far. Even
the shortest purse may reach to the
uttermost bounds of the earth.
Money is a missionary. Wherever it
is sent it is messenger of light of
darkness. 1t goes to the help or the
hurt of mankind The sad truth Is
that so much money is sent on foolish,
needless or wicked errands. For money
may bear the most precious truths OF
brotherhood of love and of hope. A
man who has no gift of speech, NO
erudition, no appetite for teaching
and no personal charm. may vet full
fill all these Offices through the right
| disposal Of his money.
| Baptized pocketbooks are those over
which tears of sympathy for a worlds
need have been shed Such pocket
+, books are veritable treasures Of the
| Lord because out of them he salts
| fies the wants of those whom he has
| declared to be his representatives: fo,
"Inasmuch as We did it unto one of the
least of these, We did it unto me-"
SO long as a man has money he is
! free; but as soon as money has the
| man he is a slave.
/ Money is only means" it is not ar
end. A man may possess millions, ant
still fail to have secured all the mos
| desirable things of life. 1t is not the
possession of money. but its use, tina
makes person rich The office o
| money is merely as a medium of ex
change. Certain abilities or opportun
| tiles are changed into money: thel
| the money is changed into houses am
clothes and food and health and serv
| ice and pleasure. The manner il
which this medium is employed de
4 4, 49,
son buys more riches with hundred
dollars than another buys With ;
/ thousand.
A popular notion that missions ar
/ simply something to which none,
must be given widely prevails. Prob
ably most persons think of misson
only in connection with money. Anon;
Christians the idea is common tina
their supreme missionary obligation il
met by money. A certain type 0
missionary address. with which all at
/ PENDANTS upon religious gatherings arr
/! familiar, has greatly fostered this mis-
apprehension. Really the money sid
of missions is only secondary: If thi
enterprise is to be conducted as
mere financial propaganda. ii canno
| widely succeed. Missions nee,
| knowledge, interest and sympathy be
| fore they need moneys the gift
/ without the giver is bare" II is NOR
| important that Christian bear upo1
! his spirit the burden of the uneyan
| gelized world than that he make larg
gifts of money 10 the missionary treas
ury. This cause needs his intelligen
interest. his best counsel. his sense Q
responsibility and his earnest prayers
more than ii needs his dollars.
goddess millionaire might give
fortune 10 foreign missions. but
1 would not count for as much in ult
/ mate results as the prayers of tn