Show < r FACTS FROM THE PULPIT 0 Ecv 3 II Thralls Sunday ETCII ing Lecture to Young Men J On Sunday evening at Indppendence Hall Rev J B Thrall delivered the fourth of a series of lectures to young men of which the folio wing is a synopsis Facts show that the mint value of money is too little understood Society is dazzled bygreat fortunes as Rome was dazzled by the military genius of Casar not because he was a man but because I he seemed a god The average young man takes off his hat to a colossal pocket book because it represents a degree of power to which he never expects to attain at-tain tainThe The American people have not yet learned to respect moderate competency as it deserves to be respected We have not learned the value of money as iwney Other things being equal it is as honorable honor-able to be worth 5000 at 40 as to be reputed re-puted for intelligence But young men have not adequately learned that there is a moral responsibility involved in the I possibility of becoming financially independent inde-pendent There is a good deal of excuse for them Duties with relation to money were about the last things boys were taught at home or school They were given pennies to I buy candy but they were not taught the i higher purchasing power of those pennies It was inevitable that money should represent to them only so many necessities plus so many luxuries The i lesson they should have been taught before be-fore they needed to apply it they learned only by hard experience often after the harvest was past and the summer ended Boys should be afforded an opportunity early in life to learn a common business prudence and acquire the first principles of ua sound financial policy I The value ol money cannot DC overestimated over-estimated It is the value of those things which money can purchase that is too commonly estimated Men sometimes u pay toodear for their whistle but in such cases it was the worth of the whistle not the value of the money which was overestimated If money is used ttf t purchase pur-chase education if it is used as a factor in civilization there is no danger of overestimating over-estimating it The three fates which preside over the temporal destiny of young men in these modern days are making saving and spending Put in few words this lecture might be boiled down thus Make all you can save all you can spend all you can First Make all you can Not make haste to get rich but choose a good calling call-ing Choose if possible a broad and high calling Do not choose a calling simply because it affords the readiest means of getting a living Choose a calling i call-ing that has brain and an tipper story in it and disdain any calling as beneath you no matter how remunerative which does not allow full play to your moral faculties SecondSave all you can Anything is worth more to save than it was to make It might have been a llatfer of choice whether a certain thing should be made but once made there is no longer room for dlOiH Third Spend all you can Save in order that you may spend What cannot be converted to use is not worth having In the final issue the only way to save anything is to spend it that is convert ito it i to its brightest uses Do not convert you money into that which is not valuable and do not cultivate a mere hoarders instinct in-stinct Be industrious be economical I be generous Do not be a miser and do not be a spendthrift Let every young man who would be intelligent and moral and highminded begin with that which lies nearest him viz the finance question But carry this question of making sav ing and spending beyond finance Make character save it and spend it Make reputation save it and spend it Make influence save it and spend it Make brain and give power save it and spend it In short make manhood save it and bring it to its uses |