The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-06-17

lie one. The Pastor is in the sixties,
white-haired, and of kindly, earnest
speech which convinces the hearer of
his sincerity. He said:
One of old prayed, Give me neither
poverty nor riches; = lest be full.
and deny Thee. and say, Who is the
Lord? or lest l be poor, and steal, and
take the name of the Lord my God in
vain" proverbs 30:S, o. Great riches
have come to the world within the
past sixty years, especially in Europe
and America Instead of the hearts of
the prosperous uplifting with gratitude
to God, the tendency seems to be away
from God. and especially away from
His Son, and away from all special
thought of share in His redemptive
work. or a need of It The pleasures
Of this life crowd out all pleasure
in respect to future hopes and pros
poets.
There was d time when miserliness
and boarding seemed to have control
of all business men. But with the
growth of wealth have come saner and
more reasonable views of justice The
folly of merely accommodating money
and leaving it to others to squander
has impressed men of wealth. The
rich of America and Europe are giving
themselves more leisure in the prime
of life. and giving room for others TO
take their places in the commercial
world However. especially In Ameri
ca, there seems to be a restlessness
which. turned aside from business
leads into headlong pleasure seeking.
1t cannot be disputed that activity Is
life, that inactivity spells death None
could wish that our great business men
would become sluggards. Our wish
should rather be that their maturer
years might be gratuitously devoted to
the promotion of philanthropic plans
for the aid of the lower classes, along
social and economic lines. It is our
conviction that millions of money be-
sides their own would flow into such
hands for disbursement along broadly
economic lines The motives would
be distrusted unless the projects were
conducted OH the highest plane of be
nevolence, with open accounts.
There is room for such benevolences
in every land, hut nowhere Is it more
needed than in countries under British
and American control-where CONNER
cialism has absorbed some of the ablest
talent, leaving comparatively little OPP
portunity for the less progressive All
over Great Britain and in nearly every
state of the Union there are splendid
opportunities for such benefcent
works. When these civilized lands
have been blessed, there are the tenn
ing millions IN India, which merely
exist under conditions not fit for
good dog.
All these are our brethren of the one
blood. St Paul declares. No one win
dispute the necessities of the case. The
sympathetic are greatly appalled, with
the thought Of the amount Of money
and labor that would be necessary to
cope with the conditions Methinks
that Heaven looks interestedly on to
note how our showers of blessings and
riches are affecting our hearts, said the
Pastor
The Responsibility of knowledge and
Riches.
am not judging the wealthy. ! am
merely sounding note of warming, as
the Apostle Paul urged. saying, Warn
those who are rich in this world that
they trust not In uncertain riches. Il
Timothy GID / believe that amongst
the rich there ure many noble. benevo-
lent Christian hearts which are in per
plexity as TO what TO do or not to do.
with their time and their riches. l am
merely offering suggestions based upon
ny observation In all parts of the
world. The need is tremendous.
1t seems to me that the Lord, in
pouring upon the professed Christian
people so great wealth as has come to
them in recent years. is proving them.
testing them. Inasmuch as they do
or do not do according to their oppor
tunit1es and Judgment, they win hear
or not hear the Masters "Well done.
thou good and faithful servant" Let
us make no mistake The poor and
iSSS prosperous anu TESS euucdleu uTe
fast following the example set by the
satisfied Pleasure-seeking is the trend
Of the whole world God is being for
gotten by the poorer. as well as by the
weather.. and the end of the lane is.
not far off-"a time Of trouble such as
never was since there was nation
world wide anarchy.-Daniel 1871.
churchianity Not Christianity.
With the awakening of true Chris
tianity-heart Christianity come
a substitute; namely. Churchianity.
For years Christian faith has been
gradually declining. under the attacks
Of Higher Criticism, Evolution. and I'M
der the neutralizing influence of the
love of pleasure. Gradually one Bible