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COVETOUSNESS.—

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 25.

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COVETOUSNESS.—

There is a fable of a covetous man, who chanced to find his way one moonlight night into a fairy’s palace. There he saw bars, apparently of solid gold, strewed on every side; and he was permitted to take away as many as he could carry. In the morning, when the sun rose upon his imaginary treasure, borne home with so much toil, behold! there was only a bundle of sticks; and invisible beings filled the air around him with scornful laughter. Such shall be the confusion of many a man who dies in this world worth his thousands, and wakes up in the next world not only “miserable and poor and blind and naked,” but in presence of a heap of fuel stored up against the great day of burning.