THE USE OF RICHES,

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 165, 6 April 1871, Page 6

THE USE OF RICHES,

Among; the death notices brought oub by rhe last European mail we read t'lat six moil, one of' fiem a clergyman, lately dii'd, lenvimjl'e'u'nl them nearly

a million and a half of money, besides much in value of the world's goods. We believe t'.iafc if these men could have taken their money with them to the jjrave. they would have so ordered it to be done. To thin'c that six men, and one of them a minister of religion, could <ro out of this world and leave in thrir coffers or rather in the coffers of the national banks, a million and ahalf of money whilst thousands of their countrymen and countrywomen were craving for the bare necessities of life, wherebvto keep body and soul together, is to think very bad of some kinds of hunrm n iture, and shows how hard are the hearts of men, and how greedy and selfish hunan feelings can become. Wore thero no w«»un led soldiers, no broken-hearted do'stitute widows, no helpless orphans, no portion of suffering humanity that some of that enormous wealth inis*ht not have relieved? Surely not, or this could not have l'e a n. These men had all made their wills before they died ; one had said, *' I bequeath six hundred thousand, pounds to this man ";' and another had said, " I leive two hundred thousand poun Is fo a family whose- riches are so enormous that they will never be able to spend the interest'"; and so on with the other four men, each and all seek-

i:i: to eivi-h those win ted menI'i'hin x — id din *to tho^e who possessed already over-tnu<"h, an-1 heeding not thosfi who had nothin r. T iese men called in their hwvers, and in coll blood mule their wills, an I bv-an 1-by ea'ne, to their last bed of sickn ss, and — whilst pravinjr to be received into heaven — forgot that their fellow-crea-tures were perishinr. for the lack of that \v''ic'i might have been well supplied from each abundant pouree of wealth.