WEALTH

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1855

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 12.

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WEALTH.

Wealth, true wealth is that possession which satisfies the heart. Palaces and lands may leave a man miserable. To be satisfied in one's cell—to feel no aching, no void, to sleep peacefully and wake without pain, regret, or remorse, such is wealth. With these the hardest pillar becomes soft, the roughest way smooth, the darkest future bright, and their possessor stands up a man than whom God has made none nobler; free from the canker which follows power and fame, and independent of the exigencies which make and may shiver crowns.For the promotion of the good, the beautiful and the true, goods and lands are a heritage from heaven; but when wrapped in a napkin, and bound to the heart they congeal human sympathies and blast human life.