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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 24, 1866

More Money.

HUMAN nature is wofully given to filthy lucre. Its god is money, its end and aim is to lay up treasures for the moth and rust to corrupt. To accumulate wealth is for what it toils and strives more than anything else, not excepting the salvation of its soul.

Men's energies are all bent in one direction, their plans have all a common centre—riches are what they aim at and what they work for. They bow the knee to gold, worship greenbacks, and doff their hats to postal currency, even. They toil, lie, cheat, swindle, and endanger their souls for wealth.—There are but few exceptions to this rule—we are nearly all in the same boat. It is strange that humanity will conduct itself thus, when it sees how little pleasure is derived from riches; when it knows, as well as it knows anything, that money cannot buy happiness. Professedly, happiness is what all are seeking, but all take a most singular path to find it. A very rough and toilsome and crooked path it is that we tread to find bliss. And then it is not found at our journey's end. The fact is, we are on the wrong track; the road that we are traveling don't lead to the haven of rest; wealth cannot bring happiness and peace of mind. And, still we pursue the same rout; we keep on the same trail; we toil on, sweat, blow, puff, and go hungry and naked for a little more filthy lucre than is needed to put us through this vale of tears, to the first station beyond the "dark, rolling river." How strange.