Different Estimates

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 5, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 18.

Different Estimates

There is a reason why millionaires are being added on the one hand, and paupers are being multiplied on the other, in these bountiful United States. Here, as elsewhere, “the love of money is the root of all evil.” By way of illustration, it was recently stated in the United States Senate that a noted business man had sent the following message to the President: “What are 258 human lives and a ship like the Maine worth compared with the loss to trade and commerce of New York City and of the United States?” This estimate of human life is widely different from that of the Saviour, who valued one soul above all the wealth of the whole world. “What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”