| Show Money oney and Other Things I JOHN D. D ROCKEFELLER doubtless paid tJ the ancient churchman the highest compliment com corn of ot which he he- was capable when ho remarked that St Paul would have havo been a captain of ot industry had ho lived a a. couple I of ot thousand years later The oil icing king might havo have predicted for tho the apostle a n. career as a sovereign or as a a. great philanthropist or as a a. great tribune of tho people for tho the redress of economic wrongs but ho would riot not havo have considered any of ot these as greatly complimentary To the attainment attainment attainment attain attain- ment of ot the tho stature of a n. captain of industry Industry indus Indus- tr try is the te tie last word v rd in 1 human uma achievement Yet the hc perverseness of ot th this stubborn and stiff necked generation persists in counting as great reat and useful many men who never turned their hand to commerce Washington Lincoln LIncoln Lin LIn- coln coin McKinley l and Kosciusko Ln Lafayette yette Gladstone Gambetta and and- Grant are held In itt honored remembrance by millions who havo o forgotten that the first Astor or Van- Van or Rothschild over ever existed Andrew Carnegie will live in history for tor his benefactions bone bene t factions rather than his capac capacity t. t for money money- making The acquisition of ot wealth and of t tower power ower in industry is usual usually y the result of opportunity rather than the pos possession of ot unusual gifts of mind and heart Mr Rockefellers Rockefeller's acquaintance with the life lite of ot St St. Paul is evidently le less ICES 9 intimate than his knowledge of ot cent per cent Tho The apostle was a n man of ot unusual means for his day and generation His wealth gave him 1 leisure first for tor his propaganda that clo closed ea easo so abruptly on tho tito road to fo o Damascus and his later activities in or Ct Christianity Trio The opportunity and the instrument by which he hc might havo o risen in lila his da day to the tle stature of ot a Rockefeller comparatively speaking w were ro r ready ld to his Ills hand But Dut his vigor an and unusual mind choso chose another expression expression ex ox- than mone money moncy There are other duties to be discharged than thon the the accumulation of ot wealth The world orld otters offers other work to be bo d done nc work for foi minded high-minded men and ond women who find In its usefulness s tho the solace for tor its lack of ot profitableness They mo may not bulk largely large large- I ly when measured b by tho Rockefeller stancl- stancl dard but there are enough nough x persons who gauge gause a 3 friend by some other than tho mon money standard to mako malto life worth the liv living ltv ltv- ing nc |
