Don’t Be Ruined h\ Riches I Now it is not true that .testis taught that all first-class Chris tians must be complete paupers It is not true that Jesus taught that I no one with property can be a 1 Christian. It is not line that Ji ,i> laid it down as a rule for all his followers that they must give away everything they have One of his best-loved disciples was John, who owned a home of his own We ran recall Lydia and Barnabas i among the early Christians; we 1 can ail name Christians who have served God and their fellow-men with their money When a doctor tells a patient he must gel rid of his appendix, he is not saving that all healthy persons must do the same But when an appendix is a danger, out it must come. Now wealth may be a danger, a source of moral infection. The one best way to keep from the dangers of possessions (and these begin as soon as vve have as much as one surplus dime' is to learn to think of them, and to use them, as a trust from God. ! To be Christian in the rarning ' ; nd acquiring of what we have; I to he Christian in the using of it; to spend what we have as if Christ were spending it: to remember that of him to whom much is giv i en. much shall he required: to re gard what we own as so much op portunity for doing good, instead of se much insurance against hard ships; this calls for thr grace of j God »!*•••»! hr- ♦ bA I ptrifttan ef FduoafiAA s -> 11 * y> x I f *nnHI e( |h» ( Huxrhas a# I hint •j» *h* 18.A. Released be ruuiu.1 ___ HUMAN U.XISTUNCU L)r. George )■’ Carlei ut Johns Hopkins University, who declared in 1949 than man had lived on this Continent 40.000 year ago. now holds that artifact# establish human existence here anywhere itca: 100,090 to 409 900 yeaia no

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