Recently, I came across a story about a man named Daniel de Marbelle.
He had been born in France in 1818. Later he joined the American Navy and fought in the Mexican War and later was a musician in the Civil War.
After the war he travelled across America, singing and acting.
At 69, he became one of the first clowns hired by Bailey of the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Later he organized his own circus which was destroyed by a fire. He also worked with Buffalo Bill Cody in his Wild West shows.
He was a multi-talented man who could play any instrument. He was an actor, a writer, a ventriloquist, and an amazing public speaker.
But he was not a business man. His last years were spent in poverty and he lived in an abandoned schoolroom. He sang in the choir in a church in Elgin, Illinois and sometimes gave his testimony:
"For years I was so busy I didn't have time for God and so rich I didn't need Him. God had to slow me down and take my success away so that He could talk to me about the home beyond the river."
When They Ring The Golden Bells
By Daniel de Marbelle
There's a land beyond the river, that we call the sweet forever,
And we only reach that shore by faith's decree;
One by one we'll gain the portals, there to dwell with the immortals,
When they ring the golden bells for you and me.
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