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THE CONTRAST

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 22, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 8.

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THE CONTRAST.

A MILLIONAIRE said a short time before his death: "I don't see what good all my money does me. I can't eat it; I can't spend it; in fact, I never saw it. I dress no better than my private secretary and can not eat as much as my coachman. I live in a big servants' boarding-house; am bothered to death by beggars; have dyspepsia; can not drink champagne; and most of my money is in the hands of those who use it mainly for their own benefit." What a sad defeat!
A poor man said a few months before his death: "I care not where I live or how I live, or what hardships I go through, so that I can but gain souls for Christ. When asleep I dream of those things; as soon as I awake the first thing I think of is this great work. All my desire is to give the Gospel to others; all my hope is in God." What a glorious victory!—Selected.