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WHERE TO KEEP THINGS
Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
THE THINGDOM OF GOD
WHERE SHOULD WE KEEP THINGS
“Thou hast put all things”—where?
In man’s hands?
No.
In his pocket?
No. “Thou hast put all things under his feet.”
That is where they belong.
Emerson in his day complained that “things had got into the saddle and were riding mankind.”
What would he say today?
The modern world has gone mad over things—machines, instruments, gadgets of all kinds.
Its kingdom might well be dubbed “Thingdom,” for it is dominated by its own inventions and manufactures.
“He who makes a machine emancipates ( free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated) me,” said Henry Ward Beecher a century ago.
One wonders whether he would say the same today.
Things!
Think of:
The fever of getting them
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The fever of getting them.
Leo Tolstoi told a story of a man to whom a rich landowner promised as much ground as he could walk over in one day.
In the morning the man set off full of vigor, determined to cover as much land as possible before sundown.
He tramped all day long without a single halt and arrived back as darkness fell to claim what he had won.
As he entered the landlord’s presence, however, he dropped dead!
The folly of hoarding them
“The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: and he thought within himself, saying, … Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry.
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”
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The fret of leaving them
“I was walking in the new apartments of Cardinal Mazarin’s palace.
I recognized the approach of the Cardinal by the sound of his slippered feet, which he dragged one after the other as a man enfeebled by a mortal malady.
I concealed myself behind a tapestry, and I heard him say:
‘I must leave all this.’
He stopped at every step, for he was very feeble, before a Rembrandt, a Titian, or a Picasso, and, casting his eyes on each object that attracted him, he sighed forth, as from the bottom of his heart: ‘I must leave all this.
What pains I have taken to acquire all these things!
Can I leave them without regret?
I shall never see them where I am about to go’ ” (Anon.).
Samuel Johnson, on being shown over the treasures acquired by his friend David Garrick, remarked: “Ah, Davie, these are the things that make death dreadful.”
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