Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you c …… [ 展开全部 ]an read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE POWER OF CUPIDITY. 45 CHAPTER III. MONEY AND ITS USES, ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE. " The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, s-.iil.li the Lord of Hosts."? Hag. ii. 8. An experiment?Dr Franklin?"...(展开全部)
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE POWER OF CUPIDITY. 45 CHAPTER III. MONEY AND ITS USES, ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE. " The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, s-.iil.li the Lord of Hosts."? Hag. ii. 8. An experiment?Dr Franklin?"My mite"?The poor widow's?Man's tenure of God's gifts?Scriptural rules?Texts?The Jewish tythe not the Christian standard?Reasons?Deductions?The Bible's place ? Summation?Examples of the ruined?"Tom of ten thousand"? Beacons. In order to make an experiment upon man's inborn cupidity, Dr Franklin once presented a little child with an apple, and thus engrossed one of his hands. A second apple was offered, and that filled the other. But a third apple was presented to the child, and then began his trial?he could grasp no more?and what was he to do ? He dropt one of those which he already held, seized upon the third, and wept because he could not enjoy all the three at once. Now, " that child was father to the man," and ten thousand things meet us in life which that experiment vividly illustrates. In the ingot among the rude, and the guinea among the civilized; in the apples of the little child, and the hoarded store of the capitalist still 46 THE WIDOW'S MITE. tent on boarding more, we see the objects, or the representation of the great ruling passion. And, it may help to illustrate the character of that passion, if we remark at the outset, that when men begin to think of employing some fraction of their money as they should employ it all, it is not uncommon to hear them call their contribution their mite. Either from the affectation of humility, or by a strange perversion of the poor widow's gift as described in the gospels, that name is bestowed upon what we give in charity to the destitute, or in knowledge to the ignorant, especially the knowledge of Christ to t... [ 收起 ]
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