Unused Wealth

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After many weeks, during which his family, aided by the police, searched for him, a wealthy man of Ithaca, New York, was located at a poorhouse in New London, Connecticut. He had wandered away from home suffering from mental trouble, and, in spite of the efforts that were made, had entirely eluded his friends. While they were searching for him, desiring to bring him back again to his home of comfort and luxury, he was living in a poorhouse. How many people there are like that. Christ has purchased for them an inheritance of untold wealth. But while the Savior is seeking after them to bring them into the rich enjoyment of this peace and comfort, they are living in the poorhouse of worldliness. It is necessary to get such people to “look up” and behold the spiritual treasures before it is possible to lift them up out of their self-imposed poverty.

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