WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT?

In 1923 nine of the world's most successful, money-making businessmen got together at the Edgewater Hotel in Chicago. Those present and accounted for were: 1. The head of the greatest monopoly. 2. The most successful speculator on Wall Street. 3. The president of the largest independent steel company. 4. The president of the largest utility company. 5. The president of the largest gas company. 6. The greatest wheat speculator in the USA. 7. The president of the New York Stock Exchange. 8. The president of the Bank of International Settlements. 9. A member of the President's Cabinet. But in spite of all they had, what had become of these men without God? Twenty-five years later... 1. IVAN KRUEGER, head of the greatest monopoly, committed suicide. 2. JESSE LIVERMORE, the most successful speculator on Wall Street, committed suicide. 3. CHARLES SCHWAB, president of the largest independent steel company, died in bankruptcy and lived on borrowed money for five years before his death. 4. SAMUEL INSULL, the president of the greatest utility company, died as a fugitive and penniless in a foreign land. 5. HOWARD HOPSON, the president of the largest gas company, went insane. 6. ARTHUR COTTON, the grea- test wheat speculator, died abroad, bankrupt. 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)