in washing to support the man while he sat and smoked on the veranda.  I don’t want to see any more of that land of God’s poor.  Now, when a man could have been rich just as well, and he is now weak because he is poor, he has done some great wrong; he has been untruthful to himself; he has been unkind to his fellowmen.  We ought to get rich if we can by honorable and Christian methods, and these are the only methods that sweep us quickly toward the goal of riches.

I remember, not many years ago a young theological student who came into my office and said to me that he thought it was his duty to come in and “labor with me.”  I asked him what had happened, and he said:  “I feel it is my duty to come in and speak to you, sir, and say that the Holy Scriptures declare that money is the root of all evil.”  I asked him where he found that saying, and he said he found it in the Bible.  I asked him whether he had made a new Bible, and he said, no, he had not gotten a new Bible, that it was in the old Bible.  “Well,” I said, “if it is in my Bible, I never saw it.  Will you please get the text-book and let me see it?” He left the room and soon came stalking in with his Bible open, with all the bigoted pride of the narrow sectarian, who founds his creed on some misinterpretation of Scripture, and he put the Bible down on the table before me and fairly squealed into my ear, “There it is.  You can read it for yourself.”  I said to him, “Young man, you will learn, when you get a little older, that you cannot trust another denomination to read the Bible for you.”  I said, “Now, you belong to another denomination.  Please read it to me, and remember that you are taught in a school where emphasis is exegesis.”  So he took the Bible and read it:  “The love of money is the root of all evil.”  Then he had it right.  The Great Book has come back into the esteem and love of the people, and into the respect of the greatest minds of earth, and now you can quote it and rest your life and your death on it without more fear.  So, when he quoted right from the Scriptures he quoted the truth.  “The love of money is the root of all evil.”  Oh, that is it.  It is the worship of the means instead of the end, though you cannot reach the end without the means.  When a man makes an idol of the money instead of the purposes for which it may be used, when he squeezes the dollar until the eagle squeals, then it is made the root of all evil.  Think, if you only had the money, what you could do for your wife, your child, and for your home and your city.  Think how soon you could endow the Temple College yonder if you only had the money and the disposition to give it; and yet, my friend, people say you and I should not spend the time getting rich.  How inconsistent the whole thing is.  We ought to be rich, because money has power.  I think the best thing for me to do is to illustrate this, for if I say you ought to get rich, I ought, at least, to suggest how it is done.  We get a prejudice against rich