The war within; being a few admonitory thoughts upon some modern temptations by Le Bosquet John Edwards

Author:Le Bosquet, John Edwards. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Conduct of life
Publisher: Boulder, Col., The First Congregational church
Published: 1911-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

not oppose the financial powers that be, not even for the public good. He votes a tariff on wool which brings hardship upon the poor and he votes down the parcels post which the nation sorely needs—all these and other harmful deeds he is sometimes guilty of because, as one of his ilk in New York once declared, he is " working for his pocket all the time!" His belief beyond a doubt is that a man's life consists in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

More important than all the rest, the everyday man is too prone to think so. See how he estimates his acquaintances, looking not at the talents of a man but at his salary, not at his character but at his income, not at his value to the community but at his stocks or lands or mines. Is it not much too significant that, for common parlance, a man is "worth" just the amount of his convertible securities, no more and no less! The life-ideal of too many young men is to have money and the life-ideal of too many young women is to have the things money can buy—the more the better. It is a prevalent belief—you will see it appearing if you will watch the deeds of those about you and sometimes, I fear if you will watch your own deeds —it is a commonplace of this world we inhabit, that a man's life consisteth of the abundance of

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