p. 6 | Life Is True Wealth

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1902

Life Is True Wealth

THE true assets of an individual are not to be reckoned in the amount of his wealth, but in the amount of his life. The richest man in the world is the man who has the most life. Life is the one chief thing, and all other things are of value only as they are capable of being used to preserve or to increase life. With abundance of life, the lack of other things is of small account; but if a full measure of life is lacking, all other things in the world can do little toward making existence tolerable. Life is the true wealth, and the only source of life is God. He who would obtain this wealth, which alone can make existence truly enjoyable, must seek it by conformity with the laws of the Life-giver; and upon this condition it is within the reach of all. Christianity is simply God's plan for restoring to man the fullness of life which was lost to the human race by the first transgression.