The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-09
HARTMAN AS
SEEN n B Y
CARVER
ONE OF A SERIES OF SERMONS
ON GREAT MEN
"Thc Man Who Kept His Money and
Kept HimscIf-Harrin,an Inter
viewed by Reporter,

| Inc nrSt oil the series OF sermons
| in the First Presbyterian church upon
| The Use and Abuse of Money" as
shown by the life of f. H, Hartman,
| The Man Who Kept His Money and
| Kept Himself" was prefaced by three
exceptionally good musical numbers.
given by Misses Beatrice Hamil and
| Mitchell and Mr. Saunders
Rev. Carver said In part;
Seven years ago. when DR.. Stiles.
| then q geologist In the bureau of ami
NAL industry at Washington. told the
| Pan-Americnn Sanitary congress that
| the sO-callcd shiftlessness In certain
sections OF the south WAS due to a
specific disease caused by the hook
worm sapping the peoples vitality, he
was derlded for had not these same
peoples been condemned for years as
shiftlesS and lazy? Today. knowing
the reality of the disease, we pity
rather than condemn A like misun-
derstanding has long existed concern
ing the so-called EVIL OF money and
its baneful influence Instead of be-
ing told religiously to secure money.
the worst phase of the worldly rich is
held up in warning.
What is money! It is a stored
power. 1t Is potential energy. Power
| accumulatcs. We see it in the noun
tain stream that has been damned,
we see it In the storage battery
wherein electricity has accumulated
power, which may be used either for
evil or for good Now IL is Just so
with money; it can be used in good
or evil, but 1t Is stored power Just the
same. The great Haller, the father
of modern physiology. experimental
with the lasting strength of many
chemicals. He found that ambergris
lost none of its stored power of fTag
rance though exposed for forty years
and many an hospital and school has
learned the same lesson about the
lasting helpfulness of stored power
as well invested money.
What is money? 1t is stored life
At the end Of a week or month Your
wages or profits are but your stored
life for that time Money thus Ie-
ceived is life energy and talent stored
for your present or future use Now
ii money be power and life stored at
the cost Of power and life, we surely
need TO take heed how we use il. for
life and power are needed every day
/ IL lpl olllN III OUT ON III lives, Dul III lllt
lives of those about us as well
This has been often called a COM
mercial and money sordid age. We
believe that it can more truly be
called social, religious and philan-
thropic age There have been ages
far more money mad than our own.
as for instance the day Of the city
despotiSm Of Babylon or Nineych; or
in the city states of Venice and
Rome; or in the reign of Louis XIV
or of King Philip of Spain. But our
age cannot be matched in aught that
is best for mankind. Witness our city
Fairgrounds, modern tenements, and
there are far more model" ones than
the oft.decried unsanitary ones. Wit
ness the funds for tubercular treatment
and all the allied charities. schools.
etc. Therefore in this series we do
not march with those who see evil in
the men of money and their work.
Every life teaches its great lesson.
We firmly believe this, and therefore
we shall turn to these present day
men with as much of expectancy as
We would TO John Wesley or Martin
Luther And as a Bernard or Leo,
Calvin or Knox can teach the lesson
Of zeal, concentration. faith and self
denial in their way, these money men
can teach it equally in their own.
Yea. and many modern lessons for to-
day besides.
II was 4 humble rectory In Hem
stend, Long Island, that. on February
25. 1S4S, there was born one who was
destined to become the great railroad
king. 2, II, Harrimans father was
rector there until 1S49, when because
Of controversy over arrears In sal
ary, he moved to Jersey City and took
charge of a little church in Hoboken.
There were four sons and two daugh-
tors in the family. and the times Jared
badly for them, causing the record of
them TO be obscure from 1850 TO 1866
II seems to have been a period of
deep poverty, in which the sterling
qualities of the mother were made
manifest. Late Ia the sixties they in
herlted some money, which enabled
the father 10 retire In comfort. Young