Page 12 - Good News February 2016 paper

n 1923 nine of the world's most successful, money-making
businessmen got together at the Edgewater Hotel in Chicago.
IThose present and accounted for were:

1. The head of the greatest monopoly. everal years ago there came to Los Angeles, the great
2. The most successful speculator on Wall Street. metropolis of southern California, a "human fly". It was
3. The president of the largest independent steel company. Sannounced that on a given day he would climb up the face of one
4. The president of the largest utility company. of the large department store buildings, and long before the appointed
5. The president of the largest gas company. time, thousands of eager spectators were gathered to see him perform
6. The greatest wheat speculator in the USA. the seemingly impossible feat.
7. The president of the New York Stock Exchange.
8. The president of the Bank of International Settlements. Slowly and carefully he mounted aloft, now clinging to a window
9. A member of the President's Cabinet. ledge, then to a jutting brick. Up and up he went, against apparently
insurmountable difficulties. At last, he was nearing the top. He was
But in spite of all they had, what had become of these men without seen to feel to the right and left and above his head for something firm
God? enough to support his weight and carry him further. Soon he seemed
Twenty-five years later... to spy what looked like a grey bit of stone or discoloured brick pro-
1. IVAN KRUEGER, head of the greatest monopoly, committed truding from the smooth wall. He reached for it, but it was just beyond
suicide. his reach. He ventured all on a spring-like movement, grasped the
2. JESSE LIVERMORE, the most successful speculator on Wall protuberance and before the horrified eyes of the spectators, fell to the
Street, committed suicide. ground!
3. CHARLES SCHWAB, president of the largest independent steel
company, died in bankruptcy and lived on borrowed money for five In his dead hand was found a spider's web! What he evidently mistook
years before his death. for solid stone or brick turned out to be nothing but dried froth!
4. SAMUEL INSULL, the president of the greatest utility company,
died as a fugitive and penniless in a foreign land. Alas, how many are thinking to climb to heaven on their own, only to
5. HOWARD HOPSON, the president of the largest gas company, went find at last that they have ventured all on a spider's web, and so are lost
insane. forever... Christ, and Christ alone, can save!
6. ARTHUR COTTON, the greatest wheat speculator, died abroad,
bankrupt. [Dr. Harry A. Ironside, Knight's Master Book of New Illustrations].
7. RICHARD WHITNEY, the president of the New York Stock
Exchange, was released from Sing Sing Penitentiary.
8. LEON FRASER, the president of the Bank of International
Settlements, committed suicide.
9. ALBERT FALL, the member of the President's Cabinet, was
pardoned so that he could die at home.

"FOR WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN, IF HE SHALL
GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?"
(Matthew 16:26)