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tion. Money is wealth, one says, and so it is, but, then, all wealth 

 is not money. Horses are animals, but all animals are not horses. 

 Well, money is wealth everywhere, to be sure, though wealth is 

 not everywhere money. Thus we see what money is not. We 

 may inquire. What is wealth? Wealth — that is a very simple 

 term. It is really a man's weal, a man's well being, something 

 good for a man to have. Wealth is something useful, something 

 beneficial, and it isn't possible for any man to have too much wealth. 

 It isn't possible for any community to have too much wealth. A 

 man or a community may very easily misuse wealth, but not be- 

 cause there is too much of it. Man may misuse his health, but 

 he is never too healthy ; may misuse knowledge, but never know 

 too much. A man may misuse anything that is good and service- 

 able, but it is not because he has got too much of the good, but 

 because lie hasn't the right wisdom or right will to use it. It isn't 

 possible that there should be too much wealth for any man, or too 

 much wealth in the community, for wealth is alwaj's useful. But 

 we have got to add something to this matter of usefulness to see 

 what wealth is. It has got to be something which is useful and 

 which costs labor to get it. That is the point. That is what makes 

 wealth. It has got to cost labor. Labor enters into wealth every- 

 where that it is found. 



Now, if you should go up to Prof. Shephard's cabinet in the 

 College, you would see the model of what is called the " Welcome 

 Nugget," found in Austraha, which weighed in pure gold to the 

 value of 140,000. Well, the miner who found it stumbled upon it 

 by the merest chance, and you say, " How did this cost him labor ?" 

 W^ell, it didn't cost that miner labor, to be sure, but it represented 

 exactly what that amount of gold would cost on the average. 

 Men who seek gold have got to give so much labor in order to get 

 that amount, and, if any man stumbles upon the precious metal, 

 that accident does not disturb the rule. There is no wealth which 

 hasn't labor in it. It is that which is useful to a man and that 

 which costs labor to get it, and thus we are prepared to see that, 

 if there is something useful thdt costs labor to get it, every one 

 wants it and every one is willing to do something to get it in pro- 

 portion to his sense of need. 



Wealth is of various sorts ; houses, cattle, well-cultivated farms 

 are wealth. All these may be wealth, but not the particular kind 



