Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-23
"THE PRICE
 OF A SOUL"
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 greatest abundance, and for glory and
 honor but care not, nor take any thought for wisdom and truth, and for your soul, how it may be made most perfect?" If that ancient sage was able to thus accurately measure the worth of the soul, can we excuse ig- norance of it's value in this day and generation3 If he was barely convict. ed Tn that early day for teaching that man s immortal interests are superior to temporal blessings can we forgive ourselves, or be forgiven, if we ignore so great truth as that presented by the NaZarene9
 Let me briefly enumeTate some of the ways in which this temptation ap. breaches us. He who for truth s sake drank the deadly hemlock, had observed | that riches sometimes benumb the bet
 ter impulses, and he, therefore, put riches first in the, question which he propounded on the streets of Athens. You will find that more of your temp ! tations will come from desire to get | rich quick than from any other source. How much wealth can one rightful- | ly acquire? As much, be that amount | great or small. as measures the service which he renders to society,". If one is limited to less than that, he feels that | he has been wronged; if he consciously I acquires more than that, be can not escape the conviction that he has de. frauded some one, and it destroys one s self respect to continue in conscious [ wrong doing.
 | How 1onab ypao1tb Obn,,ll QUO lo.,,o 9 Only as much as he can wisely use. We need food and clothing and shelter, but there is a lia c each. We must have the foo tssaTy to strength. en the body iuc .s work, but we can not go much beyond this limit without injury to ourselves. We need clothing, | but our needs in this respect are mod crate, and one has but a poor concep. | tiOn of the value of his time if he em. ploys it all in changing his raiment. | We need shelter but here, too. we can not greatly exceed our needs without multiplying our cares. We need edu- cation, and yet education is a means to an end, and in pursuing it, we must | be mindful of the fact that education lis not to be used like an ornament, to | El1NllN bhN n vanity bui Nb luNifdot one s capacity for service Money can
 be spent in travelling, and yet travel | ing can be Oyerdone; unless it results in benefit that can be communicated 10 others, it may cost more than it is
 worth. One may acquire money in order to give it to some cause or insti- tuition that deserves support, but it is ! often better 70 give one s self than | to give any amount of money.
 | Man is a social being. He needs he companionship of others, and money may enable him to meet legitimate so- cial demands, but there is nothing more empty than a life devoted entirely to social enjoyment; no investment yields smaller dividend in happiness than years wholly consumed in gratifying social ambition.
 Let money be your servant rather | than your master. Som care stronger | than others and can carry a heavier load; some can possess more money than others and yet remain the owners of i their money; others with less money may allow themselves to become sub. servient to the dollar. No one can af- ford to acquire enough money, even | though he acquires it honestly, to change this relation between the money and the man. The love of money is | still the "root of all evil;' and the man who is dominated by this passion
 is not only useless to society, but is,
 in the end, contemptible and miser- able. In the parable of the Sower we learn that even nineteen hundred yeas oc ba deceitfuness of riches choked the | truth. The indictment stands today,
 and every generation presents many
 visible evidences of this cruel fact.
 Love of money has multitude of
 ways in which it works the demoraliza- ton of those whom it rules It mani
 fests itself in every occupation and pro- fession--aas, even the calling furnishes
 no sure protection against it. Let me | illustrate what 1 mean by referring to
 some of the more important spheres of
 activity.
 Take the occupation in which I am
 engaged, journalism. Represents great field--a growing field; in /fact, there
 are few fields so large. The jour. alist is both news gatherer and moulder or IHOu0ul. Ilt ulb iVduVIo an
 to what is going on, and he points out the relation between cause and effect -interprets current history. Public opinion is the controlling force in a re- public, and the newspaper gives to the journalist, beyond everyone else, the op-
 portunity to affect public opinion. 9th. CTS reach his readers through the cour-
 tesy of the newspaper, but the owner
 of the paper has full access to his own
 columns, and does not fear the blue
 pencil The journalist occupies the DO sition of the watchman upon tower He is often able to see dangers which are not observed by the general pub
 lie, and because he can see these dan
 gers he is in position of greater re
 sponsibility. Is he diseharging tho
 duty which superior opportunity i'm
 poses upon himl l might mention 8
 number of temptations which come tC
 the journalist but I shall content my
 self with a few. First, there is tho
 temptation to conceal the name of tho
 real owner of the paper. The propri
 etor of paper should be known, but his identity is not always disclosed. Tht
 corporate entity which plays so larg, , | n ,,or+ i'm the business world has en