Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1869 — A Strange Accumulation. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Accumulation.

Thomas Dick pats the hoarding of wealth in this striking way: Suppose a man could lay up a stock of clpthes and provisions sufficient to last him for 800 years, what would it avail him, since he can live at most but from 70 to 100 years ? Suppose he had laid np in a storehouse 70,000 pairs of shoes, to what end would it serve, if he could make use, during his whole life, of only the one hundreth jgMWT them f He would be in the seme oMPnon as a man who had a hundred dishes placed before him at dinner, but who eouid only take one i or of a person who had a hundred mansions purchased for his residence, but who could occupy, only one. How rMHchlous It would appear if all that could be said of a man while he lived was simply this—that his whole life was occupied In collecting and laying up in a store house 80,006 mahogany chairs which were never intended to be used for the furniture of apartments, or 80,000 pairs of browsers which were never intended to be worn 1 And where is the difference, in point of rationality and utility, between such absurd practices, and hoarding thousands of guineas and bank notes which are never brought forth for the benefit of mankind. There is no conduct connected with the pursuits of human being* that appear* mote absurd and Wicked than such practices (however common), ts examined by ttob dictates "of reason, and the word of God, . 1 In you desire to oompoee anything effectual begin by composing yourself