54 The True Riches ; or,

The content of knowing that “all things
work together for good.” The former are
those without God and without hope—poor
indeed! the latter, poor as regards this
world’s goods, and often like the Lord Him-
self when on earth, despised too, but “rich
in faith, and heirs of the kingdom of heaven.”
An old writer says pithily: “ As children of
three or four years of age have no other
care or thought than how they may play,
and pass their time with the having of daily
food according to their appetite, not con-
sidering or taking any care for the means
which they might have, and which would be
necessary for the nourishment of their old
age ; so it seemeth to me that the men of
our time behave themselves when, through
a more than childish ignorance, they labour
without ceasing to gather and to increase
wealth, which will do them service but a
while, not caring in the meantime for
certain and immortal good, which will
nourish them for ever. And yet the soul
created according to the image of God can-
not better preserve and show forth her
Divine nature in this mortal body than by