PROV. iii. 9
“Wealth is honourable, and may be used most blessedly when men regard themselves as being what indeed they are – stewards of it, and not the owners; when they know how to acquire without avarice, and how to expend without grudging; but the wealth of the callous, the selfish, the greedy, the luxurious – their gold and silver is rusted, and its rust shall be a witness against the, and shall eat their flesh as it were fire. . . . If only every man and woman among you recognised the plain truth that you can no longer shift onto others’ shoulders the sacred responsibilities which God, and no other, lays individually upon you; if, in other words, Christians could only be aroused to be Christians, to feel as Christians, to live as Christians, to labour as Christians, we should soon sweep away the subterranean horrors of this deep, dar, under-world of woe that underlies life’s shining surface – dim, populous dens of multitudinous toil unheeded by the heedless.”
Archdeacon FARRAR
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