The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

49, ~ 49,
every thoughtful Chris
ton reasons with respect to a multi
tude OF good causes. We project our
personality by means of UT purses.
Pelf is but a symbol of self.
Profound problems OF patriotism
root deep in the purses of the peo-
pie. There are moral and social tasks
confronting the country which call
upon the money Of the people for So
luton. The most pressing economic
and political questions likewise touch
the financial well-being Of a large body
Of citizens; and unless there be the
spirit Of sacrifice on the part of these,
there is danger ahead for everybody.
The vast industrial question is largely
a money question. So is the immi-
if and the currency questions are
primarily financial. The urban ques-
ton is to a considerable degree a
honey question. Both ideS say the
woman question is fundamentally an
economic question, and therefore fl
nancial. Everybody knows that the
liquor question would be quickly set
tied were it not for the money in
~terests involved. Clearly, except we
nave in the breasts of the people the
spirit altruism and conservation with
respect to money, our most disturb
lie VII NC 0l1l1Su1S VI y
luton. The day is passing when pa
triots may be called to prove their
zeal by their rifles: but to an in
creasing degree the times call for the
spirit Of financial sacrifice on be-
half OF the nation. The purse may be
a real expression Of patriotism.
A person may go representative1y
farther than he can ever travel in per-
son. I have a friend who is doing
really wonderful work in Christian
education in India, China, Korea and
Japan-and all the while he is living
in Baltimore. Money Is the modern
swiftly girdle the earth in ministry.
The normal person naturally rea-
sons somewhat in this fashion: 81
want my life to count for something
in my own day and generation. In
some way, I desire to help influence
my own times. I am not willing that
great and wonderful works should go
| forward, and I have no part in them.
So I will set apart some proportion
Of my income to purchase a share
5 in the greatest enterprises of human
service and brotherhood that are open
$ to me" Only OF some such basis OF
! reasoning as this can we explain the
! vaStness Of the aggregate gifts made
> l yearly " d IlulL1@uuC III z
8 causes. Money for beneficient uses
is an expression and extension Of the
brotherly purposes of human hearts
s Money is never an adequate sub.
stitute for personal service when thu
latter is possible. Only they who
cannot possibly go themselves arr
S asked to send.
e A terrible picture in real life ON
times crosses our vision. 1t is of (
h life, rich in this worlds goods, blu
wholly s~elf-centered. No streams flow
y from it: all flow toward it. The onl,
objective of this life is self-petty pleas
! ures, pretty plans, pretty cares con
S corning self engross it. No othe'
lives are better for it's existence. [
is is an impoverished soul, which is tn,
saddest spectacle the angels ever lool
e upon. Tremendous capacities are I'm
n used: for money, when consecrated
= can buy the noblest of opportunities
le Such a pauper spirit as this Nigh
n have been rich by living through
n. other lives-might have educate'
girls or boys. might have equippe'
d talented men or women to do grea
le work, might have established institu
S, tons Of ministry Of a hundred sorts
y With opportunity to serve richly it
Is own time, this poor miserable
Of %atrophied soul is content to live onl
"a to prOlOng its own existence. we won
e der what another world has in stor
for the spirits which have in tn
world thus stupidity and sordidly stary
ed their capacities
Gifts are the freight cars pulle
m by the engine OF prayer. \ trainles
lg engine and an e~ngineiess train al
both rathe useless objects.
t. --
Gifts OF gold may be bcazen. 81
conservation makes golden even TT
D. gifts of copper.
as -
le There IS a wireless telegraph apps
ratus in a home known to me, an
a 1.-The boys explain that the can on
tn receive but not send. 1T takes pow,
b. ia send. and power costs" So tht
It aine out their AERIAL to catch me