THE USE OF RICHES.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2523, 18 March 1871, Page 2

THE USE OF RICHES.

Among tbc death notices brought out by the last European mail we read that six mep, one of them a clergyman, lately died, leaving behind them nearly a million and a hglf of money, besides much ii} value of the world's goods. We believe that if‘these men could have taken tluir money with them to the grave, they would have so ordered it to be done. To think th it six men and one a minister of religion, could go out of this world, leaving in their coffers, or the coffers of the national banks, one and a half millions of money, whilst thousands of the their countrymen and countrywomen were craving for the hare necessaries of life, whereby to keep body and soul together, is to think very had of some kinds of human nature, and shows how hard are the hearts of men, and how greedy and selfish human feelings can become. Were there no wounded soldiers, no broken-hearted destitute widows, no helpless orphans, no portion of suffering humanity that some of this enormous wealth might not have relieved ? Surely not, or this could uot have beeu. These men had all made their wills before they died. One had saicj, I heejueath six hundred thousand pounds to this man ; another had said, I leave twd hundred tliausand pounds to a family whose riches are so eno mous that they will never he able to spend all of the ; and so on with the other four mc.i, each and all seeking to those who wanted no enriching—adding to (hose who possessed already over-much, and heeding not those who had nothing. These nun called in their lawyers, and in cold blood made these their wills, and by-and-hye come to their last bed of sickness, and whilst praying to he received into heaven, forget that their fellow creatures are perishing for the lack of that which might have been well supplied from such abundant sources of wealth.