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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 35.

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WEALTH.

WEALTH is potent in its own sphere but unimportant beyond it. It can put a telegraph under the sea and cover the land with a net-work of wires as with a spider's web. It can build railroads and bridge oceans. It can buy houses and lands, and every material advantage; but here its power stops. It cannot purchase goodness, or justice, or gentleness, or patience, or love, or true friendship. It cannot do anything to make the character stronger or life sweeter. It can say to the minister, I will feed you and clothe you while you are making men wiser, but it can do nothing without the brain of wisdom or the heart of goodness. It can build railroads, but it cannot build men.