This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...replied, "go sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow me." "But his countenance fell at the saying and he went away sorrowful, for he was very rich." Jesus, looking after him pityingly, as he walked away, said to His disciples, "How almost impossible it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...replied, "go sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow me." "But his countenance fell at the saying and he went away sorrowful, for he was very rich." Jesus, looking after him pityingly, as he walked away, said to His disciples, "How almost impossible it is for a man that has riches to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven." That wealth cuts a man off from his fellows and so unfits him for the exercise of brotherhood, and that the greed for wealth is the root of all social evil--these were the Young Man's convictions, oft reiterated. To the Pharisees who were "lovers of money" He told the parable of the Unjust Steward with its solemn warning, "No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." The whole ancient world, from Csesar down, might have seen itself pictured in the story of the man who in his eagerness to grow richer, "tore down his barns that he might build greater" and had pronounced upon him the searching question, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" "It shall not be so among you," said the Young Man of Nazareth, pointing to the bitter spectacle of a society wearied and desolated in its madness after riches and sensual pleasure. "Whosoever will be great among you let him be your minister; and whosoever shall be chiefest shall be servant of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto but to minister." It shot through the turgid atmosphere of that selfserving, loveless world like the cleansing flash of lightning--this law of s...
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