The Poor Rich, and the Rich Poor. 55

contemning all human, earthly, and fading
things.” “In the world, but not of it ”—
able to say, ‘ He hath delivered us from this
present evil world.”

A man in London, who started life with-
out a penny, has gone on gradually adding
house to house, pound to pound, field to
field, until he used to boast that he was
possessed of freehold property in five different
counties, has upwards of a hundred houses
of his own, with stocks and shares to a very
large amount; and yet, of all the men of my
acquaintance, there is not one towards whom
I have the same melancholy feeling, and of
whom I always speak as “Poor man!” for
so anxious is he to accumulate this world’s
goods, that he barely allows himself
sufficient food, and has never been known,
within the recollection of any of his acquaint-
ances, to do a generous deed, to aid the
destitute, or to put his money to any good
account. Poor man! no widow’s blessing
rests on him, no orphan’s prayers ascend to
the God of the fatherless for him. Without
the love of God in his heart to dictate to
him how he should lay out his wealth, to