To be near unto God - pagina 15

the common necessities of life are more The large part which easily procured than here. money plays in life is too generally ignored. Aside from wealth and love of simplicity., life unfolds differently when there is a free hand financially than when hard work for sheer sustenance of self and family must fill the hours of day. The conthere

centration of every effort upon making money may soon degenerate into sinful passion, whereby the money-slave ignores all sense of honor; although itself it is natural and free from blame that utmost pains are taken to improve financial conditions. Only think of how much there is at stake

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in this matter, as regards the education of the young, our own m.oral and spiritual development, and the cause of God's kingdom in the earth. Money is a great power, and in times of pressing needs the lack of it renders one painfully helpWherefore the influence of money upon an less.

unconverted heart can not be estimated. When even godly people are caught at times in the snares of money, what must be its banal force with those who, though they know of more ideal aims, have never made a definite choice of God Money and Satan mingle and of his Christ. freely in such minds, and this opens the way for mammon. And though at first it may be tried to keep money and mammon apart, the endeavor soon proves futile. Money is a power in hand. But before we know it, it soon becomes a power over us; a power that rules over us and draws us away ever farther and farther from high and noble interests and makes slaves of us in the service of

mammon.

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