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Rich Man
Grandfather was a philosopher, adidas 35thand like a lot of philosophers, I guess, he was a mild-mannered man who was always ready to admit that there are two sides to every question. So Nike Dunk Lowwhen people got to arguing with him, or around him, about things that they got heated up and illogical about, like politics and religion,1 he would tell this story that Doc Eaton told him one day up on the Hill. It happened a long time ago, when the town wasn't all steel and concrete and automobiles; nike air max tnwhen you could still hear the whir of a lawn mower without taking a streetcar out to the suburbs, and still see a horse lazily switching at the flies on his flanks under almost any sycamore tree.2 The Forest City had a lot of trees in those days. And it had a lot of people that didn't always see eye to eye,3 like a lot of other cities. And it had a rich man, like almost every other town. adidas superstarAnd this rich man was a pillar in the Baptist Church;4 and people didn't see eye to eye about him, either. There were those—and Grandfather's eyes supra shoestwinkled when he said it—that claimed the rich man was an old hypocrite5, that he was ruthless in his business dealings, that he was so tightfisted he wouldn't china tourspend a nickel to see an earthquake,6 that when he went to church on Sunday morning he was almost as important as God to a lot of people. Then there was the other school of thought7. CHI Flat IronsIt asserted that just because a man had made money under conditions as they existed was no reason to call him a lot of hard names.8 In fact, they asserted stoutly, nike shoxthe people that called him names were merely envious of his success9. They maintained he went to church not because he was a sanctimonious old fraud10 but because he was at heart, and for all his money, a simple, deeply religious man. The preacher toted19 his gifts into his house, and just because they had been the center of interest, so to speak, he picked one of the big white potatoes out of the basket. china flights cheapThen he noticed that one end of the potato had been opened. He investigated, and discovered that a silver dollar had been neatly inserted through the opening. He examined every potato in that bushel basket, and there was a silver dollar in every single one of them. At this point Grandfather usually sat back and plucked benignly at his white beard20 and smiled. Then he'd turn philosopher and say: "It takes an almighty pile of gall21 for a man to sit up and say what is going on in another man's mind, don't22 it? I mean one way or another.MATTRESS MACHINE When Doc Eaton told me that story he didn't bother to point out any moral. By the way, he don't do any preaching any more. He's been a congressman from New Jersey for years and years. But I guess the story has a moral, all right. Always sort of tickled23 me, like it must have tickled Doc's rich parishioner. " "The New Testament says it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.24 Well, I ain't saying it isn't true. But I am saying this: timberland shoesIt took John D. Rockefeller to put a silver dollar through the eye of a potato in order that a lot of people could have some food for thought."25 |
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