The Trillionaire | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 11.

The Trillionaire.

The one-half billionaire is already in existence, if not the billionaire. No one knows the worth of John D. Rockefeller’s property. It is doubtless paying a fair interest on a billion now. But now men are talking of the trillionaire. For instance, President Dickerson, of the American Tin Plate trust, said at a banquet in Boston, the 26th ult., “We can see farther than our grandfathers could, but the twentieth century will see men capable of dealing with fourteen or fifteen figures as readily as our grandfathers dealt with seven figures.” Here is what fifteen figures mean:—

$100,000,000,000,000.

No one has the time to figure it out, and before the world reaches that as the property of any one man, the “miseries” of the prophet will be upon the rich. There were many of our grandfathers who saw eternal justice and judgment, righteousness and equity, between man and man. And that is a long way beyond the mountain of gold that is erected over the blasted and ruined hopes of man and nations. But that mountain, sometimes dwindling to the size of a dollar, shuts eternity from the view of many; and the only true view and long view is the eternal. There all will be trillionaires.