Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-11 | Page 21 | Materialists and the Finer Life

w O- O 0 1 0 r. r 1 I Materi Materialists and the Finer Life j 4 f If 1 IS the th he fashion 1 in this cou country e especially PI among people who ar are are better educated f tIn n the average to speak slightingly of oft t America i as a materialistic mat t I j St B By this of of course it is is meant that we wei i think too t o much ab about making mg- mg money and not nd enough gh about bolt living finer freer and and- more more s satisfying g- g Hv lives JiVes s. s Our Ou s scale alc of f values is is ma- ma rather rather ther than spiritual The rite cash ledger is if if not our ur Bible at lea least t our pur prayer book J f All A of of this Uis Sou sounds s quite discouraging Yet there them is a aside side to it that is often overlooked One Oh of f f the approaches approach to a fine spiritual may Ji li straight o region i o f fr brasS crass s n Take Jak this this- h s. s little story as an an illustration 4 f Not lot long Jong ag ago a a California farmer lo loaded ded 2 a refrigerator I sl ship ip wi with h a cargo of of green gree vegetables and arid ripe rip fruits from hJ his f farm fm rm and ard s 's sailed i for th the orient determined to s see ef If l lands like China the Philippines and aAd the Malar Malay Ma Ma- lar lay JaY islands could not provide a t good n market arket iq such pro produce uce The home market was gritted tIU g d. d Prices Pic were w re low ow An n industrious f farmer with a a. fertile piece of ground could always count coi on finishing the year with money th than n he had when he beg began n. n it if 1 So tI tills this s enterprising farmer sailed ailed to the li o He visited a a. a do dozen ports port Shanghai ports Shanghai li A anila iila Soura aya S Saigon igon Bata Batavia via t 4 he lie f found und unda a a ready eady and eager n market ar et for for forIs hs Is w He sold all lie he le ha had a at a nice I PIo lt and returned home to tell teIl his Jus fel fellow ow f farmers r ers ers' that th the ori orient lit p properly cultivated could make them all pro prosperous Now that man was was' strictly a a materialist mat ri r He wanted only one thing thing a thing a chance to jo get ar dollars Yet the thing he did may pay eventually open the thc w way y to a broader finer life fo for many m many ny men nii a and alid l women t Despite all ill of our talk about tile the crassness crassness' of the quest for the fact remains renai s t it Is s' s sa a lot easier er to get gets sp spiritual ritual val values e es your life if Yo you have ve money than if youl you l lye ave ye not Nothing Nothing- sh shuts a man out from a f it e and satisfying existence like poverty f r it Consider it now on a W ere there i If a constant struggle to make nake kc both ends IV et how are men mel women and children g gOi go going gO- gO i ing to lead ead lives that are anything but sordid U fj fights for fOT more e money y Hown How can n they enjoy the fruit fruits of a ri rich h civilization literature re lei leisure ure quiet Study and nd reflection They c cant nt The h j job b. b of of- of- of making king a lying living t takes k s all in their time lime t t. t ft But aut suppose se a a mat materialistic Imater exporter fi ds tl them e l a t new ew market and nd enables H them em emt t more J money They are freed from t grap of gf poverty They have bave th the time tinie and andie andt t ie s 's money tp Ip to go gi after ft r the things' things iIi that tire are rf really reilly lIy worth 1 haying having a. a They y can an think about bout something n besides their bread bead and butler butter i 1 J The materialist lateri has been given riven too bad iame There are times when h he lie is by way ft being our salv salvation A n