The essence of the present system is money. Whenever you touch money, you touch the world. It was money, which trapped the chief priest, and it is money, which has trapped our religious leaders of today. A man might serve two masters by dividing his time between them, but he cannot be slave to both, and slave is the word here employed. Covetousness, which is idolatry, tells of the domination.
Money makes a man slave indeed.
It asks an absolute loyalty. They that desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the roots of all kinds of evil which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. In other words, if anything can lead us astray from God, money will but it is not the money that is evil but the love of it. Mammon is the god of the world's leading religion.