It is told of Constantine the Great that one day, when speaking to a miser, he took a lance and marked out a space of ground the size of a human body. As he did so he said to the old man, "Add heap to heap, accumulate riches upon riches, extend the bounds of your possessions, conquer the whole world—but in a few days such a spot as this will be all that you will have."
What a terrible thought it is for a man who is grasping all that he can lay his hands on in this world, that he can take nothing with him and will only have a narrow bed of earth when his life here is over!
What a beautiful thought for the Christian that he has treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust can corrupt, so that though he may be very poor here yet his riches are there!
"What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?