Riches Are Risky Actually there are many mere warnings against wealth, in the Bible, than against poverty. The "have's" are in more spiritual peril than the "have-not's." Why this is. can be shortly stated A minister who had had many eon tacts among the supi i rich of one of America's Gold ("oasts remarked to the writer that wealth makes the first generation hard tin sec ond generation soft The man of wealth may easily trust in his pos sessions and not in God. in short to make a god out of his own i rop erty He may test right and wrong bv what the effect is on his hold ings. Because his friends arc mostly among other rich people, he is con stantly tempted to habits, diver sions. recreations, customs which are not Christian, further the pos session of wealth tends P make the ownet near-sighted, like the rich young ruler who turned Ins lack on .Icstts. he can neither see clearly his own best interest nor the needs of men and women in the shadowed ways of life. « w *

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