“ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS.”

“Gold many hunted, sweat and bled for gold ;
Waked all the night, and laboured all the day.
And what was this allurement, dost thou ask ?
A dust dug from the bowels of the earth,
Which, being cast into the fire, came out
A shining thing that fools admire, and called
A god! and worshipped.’

  

LAS! that we should measure worth
/ by a money standard! Some
better standard of real worth is
wanted. We should not estimate
men by mere yellow dust or piles of stones.
We speak of some being worth so much.
Alas! it would be more correct to call many
possessors of earthly wealth worthless, for
that indeed is their true character. Some
ancient philosophers were wise. Hear them
speak with the weight of experience. Plato
says: “ He that would be truly rich, ought
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