Life in Earnest Six Lectures On Christian Activity And Ardor
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Where your money is, is not your heart there also ? Were your for- tune to clap its wings and fly away, would not you feel as if yoirr happiness had fled away ? Have not your very thoughts got a golden tinge ? — and, tracing some of this sabbath's meditations back to their source, would you not soon land in the till, the exchange, the counting-room? Is not gold your chiefest joy? But have not flashes of truth from time to time dismayed you ? — '* What am I living for? For a make-be- lieve like ...this ? for a glittering cheat which (in the way that I am using it) will be for- gotten in heaven or felt like a canker in hell ? How shall I wake up my demented self from this spell-dream, and seek some surer bliss, some more enduring joy? For grant that I shall be buried in a coffin of gold, and commemorated in a diamond shrine, what the happier will it make the me that then shall be ?" And even without these brighter convictions, without these nrjomen- 78 LIFE IN EARNEST. tary Leaks in the general delirium of covet* ousne-MS, do you not feel a duller dissatisfac- tion occasionally creeping over you and par- alyzing your busy efforts ?
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