Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1913 — Comforting News. [ARTICLE]

Comforting News.

A minister who preached for many years in a suburb of Cincinnati retired and went to Florida to live. After a year or so there he paid his first vjsit to New York in 20 years. He wandered about for two days, and then went to see an old Cincinnati friend. "I have been watching the people in this city,” said the dominie to his friends, “and I wonder and grieve at the money-madness I see everywhere. This rush and hurry and eagerness for money abashes me. It is astonishing! Why, down in Florida one can live in comfort for 32,000 a year, but here they think and talk and act in terms of millions! "It is all so vast and so complex!” he sighed. “Why, this afternoon 1 walked down by your tallest building. I stood on the curb and looked up and up and up, and tried to comprehend the Immensity of that structure. My mind reeled. I felt faint and dissy. I leaned against the building for support—and a passing newsboy chirped: “ ’Cheer up, old to fall on you!*”—Saturday Evening Post.