Better Far Than Gold

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Gold is a key that is well-nigh omnipotent, but it has no power with Him who says: "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine." God looks not on the hand, but the heart.
The dying millionaire gasped out as he expired, "Poor, wretched, miserable!" Money had given him neither happiness nor heaven.
What a contrast is the dying utterance of a devoted Christian, William Crimshaw, of Haworth, England (1763):
"I am as happy as I can be on earth, and as sure of heaven as if I were in it... I am quite exhausted, but I shall soon be at home forever with the Lord—a poor, miserable sinner redeemed by His blood.”
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold." Prov. 3:13,1413Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 14For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. (Proverbs 3:13‑14).