Where your Treasure Is

You can soon tell where a man's treasure is by his talk. If it is in

heaven, he will not be long with you before he's talking about heaven;

his heart is there, and so his speech isn't long in running there,

too. If his heart is in money, he will soon have you deep in talk

about mines, speculation, stocks, bank rate, and so on. If his heart

is in lands, it won't be long before he's talking about real estate,

improvements, houses, and so on. Always the same, wherever a man's

heart is, there his tongue will be sure to go.

Some one in England said, if you see a man's goods and furniture come

down by the luggage train, you're pretty sure he'll be down by the

next passenger train; he won't be long after; he'll follow his goods.

And so it is with heaven; if your treasure is on before you, you'll be

wanting to follow it; you'll be glad to be on the road thither as soon

as possible.

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