The millionaire steel maker, John Henry, was recently the victim of a railway accident, and, according to the Springfield Republican (USA), as he lay, crushed and torn, at the little railway station near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he said, "I will give $100,000 to anyone who will save my life." It was a vain offer. As the Republican says, "He might have offered his entire fortune with the same result; the most skillful surgical attention could not save him." How forcibly this impresses the words of: "They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give toGod a ransom for him." (Psalm 49:6-7)
Most assuredly not, when all their wealth cannot save their own lives. "Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivers from death." (Proverbs 11:4)--Present Truth, September 18, 1902--Psalm 49:6-7.