Because of the worship of mammon, fidelity and honesty and truthfulness in dealings have retreated to such an extent as to endanger the whole structure of society. They that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. Ministers need to guard against this danger. Many people have exchanged the Lord for the god of education and culture. We admire culture.
Education is good.
But we can gain much knowledge and acquire a high degree of culture, and yet go wrong in life. Many tragedies and sorrows have resulted from education of the head without education of the heart, culture of the mind without culture of the conscience. That is the kind of education and culture we get when God is ignored and left out.