Protestantism is no stranger to the marketplace, with our raffles, auctions, and baazars. Only God knows our motives, and we must leave it with Him. Teaching morals to the next generation is going to be harder than it looks. We must embody what we teach. We must be victorious over our worst foe, which is ourselves, our tendency to give in to the flesh.
Sin can spoil any profession.
The artist pretends it is art. The minister changes his motives, the carpenter hides his shoddy work, the lawyer loses what awareness he has of truth, and the parent makes parenting a means of control. Buddhism has three Dalai Lamas at the present time. The old, retiring, the little lad who was chosen, and the Chinese fraudulent choice of a little boy, in the hopes of regulating the Buddhists thru him. The unrelenting battles in southern Europe show us that the tendency of humanity to say I am different from you, and therefore better, brings strife with every new division.