LAYING UP TREASURES ON EARTH
By Merritt E. Cornell
Interesting Extracts. No. 2.
LAYING UP TREASURES ON EARTH.
“The noted clergymen of New York are not to be reckoned among the poor of this world, though they may be rich in faith. Bishop Hughes is worth his million; Rev. J. W. Geissenheimer, of the Lutheran church, is worth a quarter of a million; Rev. A. R. Van Nest is reckoned at $200,000; and has a million more in prospect; Rev. Dr. Spring has $100,000, and his young bride three times as much more; Rev. Dr. Adams is worth $100,000; Rev. Dr. Potts $50,000, Bishop Janes about $100,000; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn, are set down at about $30,000 each.”—Springfield Republican. “A member of a church went to his Pastor and entreated his personal intercession with his favorite son, who had become ruinously addicted to the vice of gambling. The Pastor consented and seeking the young man, found him in his chamber. He commenced his lecture, but before he concluded, the young man laid his hand upon his arm and drew his attention to a pile of splendid volumes that stood upon the table, ‘Well said the young man, these volumes were won by me at a Fair given in your church; they were my first venture; but for that lottery under the patronage of a Christian church I should never have become a gambler.’ ”—Watchman. Canada Prepares.—War expenditures in Canada in 1851, $84,087; in 1862, $613,500. They propose to double the number of their soldiers. England Prepares.—Her war expenditures in 1863 were £15,000,000. More than doubled in ten years.—From the Daily Press. “The nations of the world are in a state of fearful commotion. The manufacture of rifled cannon, minnie rifles, and death-dealing missiles of all sorts, was never so active in the world’s history, and there are no signs of cessation. War, and not peace, seems to be the predominant idea. The world is one vast camp, and the military power every where predominates.”—Boston Journal. “The world is in an uproar; there is no prospect, either here or abroad, of much peace; invention has turned the whole genius of the age into the production of iron-clad ships, turreted batteries, ocean rams, rifled cannon, and all the other means of war. Nations are either quarrelling or on the eve of a conflict; thrones tremble; people are agitated; the very atmosphere is redolent of gunpowder, and in short look which way we will, we see little but the red signs of combat, hear little but the booming of the cannon, read of little but accounts of sieges and victories, and the number of men placed ‘hors de combat’ and the preparations made or making to overthrow or maintain intact political organizations. Verily in view of all these things this may be called, THE AGE OF DISORDER. Millerism ought to be delighted. Here are all the indices it wants as a prelude to its millennium. As for ourselves! when! oh! when shall an honorable peace restore our country to its original prosperity?—New York Mercury. “A glance all round the world to-day shows us a singularly extended state of war, rebellion, disorganization, distress, and uneasiness. Nor can any satisfactory conjecture be made of any road through all these troubles to a peace beyond.”—New York Independent. “The world is grown old, and her pleasures are past;
The world is grown old, and her form may not last;
The world has grown old, and trembles for fear;
For sorrows abound, and the judgment is near.”