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10 The Money Manta. ness shall be graded and known by their resemblance to this condition of misery. The pursuit of gain, unchecked and misdirected, scars and deadens the tender est feelings of the soul. No other passion so withers and blights the affections, or develops such a selfish and cruel forgetfulness of the claims and needs of the suffering and the poor. The sympathies that were intended to bind the world into one family are turned to stone; the heart becomes an arid waste, " greedy as the sea and barren as the shore." The eye is blinded to the wretchedness of the needy ; the ear closed against the appeal of the destitute ; the soul hardened to resist all the cries of pain and want. The sterile granite rock, making no return for what it receives, eagerly drinking in the gentle and constant ministries of the sunshine, air, and rain, but giving forth no sweet odor, or exhalation of moisture, or green blade, or fragrant blossom, is a faithful image of the life that is marked by crafty barrenness and greed. How many ot those who have wealth take note of the needs, and endeavor to lighten the burden of penury ? A few dollars would rescue a street waif from his horrible associations ; would inspirit deserving men and women dying in hunger and want; would save precious lives that are now being crushed out by hopeless, galling poverty, and its accompaniments of disease and crime. For want of money our asylums, hospitals, benevolent societies, and workers among the poor, are forced to narrow their aims and plans, and refuse aid to multitudes who are in deepest suffering. The nations of the earth are ready to receive the Gospel. Doors are opening in every land. Over none of them is written as of yore, " Ye may not enter here." The fields are white unto the harvest. Hosts of devoted laborers are