Paragould soliphone., 1921-06-29

l thousand dollars.
 MT. Barton: Is it possible! And yet you had over fifty thousand dollars in cash, as a result of your left the law to enter the ministry at six hundred dollars a year. You've earned fifty thousand dollars year for almost forty years since then. And you mean to say you've given that all away?
 Doctor Conwcll: All of it. At the end of every month l pay my debts, balance my books, and give away the balance, whatever it hap pens 10 be.
 Mr. Barton: 1 can imagine a strong man with big earning ca pacity doing that for a few years in his thirties or forties, say. But to keep it up straight through life wasn't the temptation to hang on to some of it tremendous? Say a hundred thousand or two, just as a protection for old age?
 Doctor Conwell: Of course it was. wouldn't be honest if l didn't admit that.
 Mir. Barton: And yet, if you were to 1.-Two your life over, you would do the same thing again?
 Doctor Conwcll: I would. But let mo make myself perfectly c'car: A lot of foolish sentimentality has been written and spoken on the |subjcct of money. You hear Il |said, No Christian has a right to get rich" say, Any Christian who has q chance to get rich, and doesn't, is not living up to his duty. Money is power--power to do good
 Is man doing his duty, who limits
 his power to do good?
 l heard man in prayer meeting once thank the Lord that he was "one of Gods poor" Well, I won | der what his wife thought about lthat? She earned all the money | that came into that house--and he smoked part of that on the yer landa. I don't want to see any moro l of tho Lords poor of that kind, ant II don't believe the Lord does. FOl l the deserving poor every decent mar
 keeps his sympathics warm and his purse open. But there arc too many | folks who blame their misfortuneS on the Lord instead of on theil own laziness or bad management Or else they eXalt their poverty | into a virtue, and think the Lord is going to love them more because they arc hard up. The Lord doesn't like failures any more than the lrost of us do.
 There was young man in the | theological school of Temple Uni versity once who came into my office one evening and said, MT President I think it is my duty
 sir, to come in and labor with you. It turned out that he thought was doing very wrong in advising young men that it is an honorable
 ambition to desire wealth. Be.
 cause" he said, "the Bible says
 money is the root of all evil. l told him I had never seen that in the Bible, and advised him to gc
 out in the chapel and get the Bible
 and show mo the place. Well, tC make a long story short. he found
 the place and read. ''The love ol
 money is the root of all evil" That
 was a very different thing. I believe in the fun of making
 money; and in the obligation of good
 men to make all the money they honestly can. But when you ask
 mo if I would be happier if I had a million dollars, or whether, if
 were to start life again. I would try to get money and keep it, I tell you in all sincerity, no.
 Money is good; but anyone who
 cant be happy without it won't he HbpVS NItH IL. HdfC ICCcHllY Hdut a study of the lives of four thousand iforty-threc American millionaires Some arc happy, some are unhappy the same as other men. But those who are happy aren't happy because they have moncy-you can be sure of that.
 talked with MT Carnegie once in his house, Do you think he was q very happy man? He did not strike mo so. He struck me as q tired, harassod old man, whose mon ey was q burden that he was trying to lightcn--and having hard time doing ;t.
 General Grant was perhaps the most famous man of his day in the world. Yet he confessed to, me once that his happiest days were tho days when he was hauling wood into St. Louis and selling it there.
 saw the Empress Eugenie stand and give toast to tho French ar mics when they marched away from Paris at the time of the Franco prnssian War She was magnificent. Stanley said she was the most beau