WEALTH.

Franklin Times, Volume 14, Issue 259, 31 July 1925, Page 8

WEALTH.

ITS RESPONSIBILITIES. SOME PERTINENT REMARKS. In the course of a sermon, specially to young men, at St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Cambridge, on Sunday night, the Rev. W. .T. Elliott had some pertinent remarks to make regarding wealth. The subject of the speaker’s discourse was the visit of the rich young men to Jesus. Mr Elliott said wealth was a very good thing, if only used rightly. Wealth brought greater responsibilities than poverty. There were thousands of people, the preacher said who spelt God with a small “g,” but gold with a capital “G.” The speaker asserted that Jesus Christ, though He said “How hardly shall a rich man enter Heaven,” did not lay down the principle of condemnation of wealth. He did not repudiate private property, or advocate the confiscation of property. The Rev. Elliott said Christ’s advice to the young man to sell all he had was not meant, for universal application. Among Christ’s friends were many wealthy people, to whom He had not spoken as He had to this particular young man. Wealth was a public trust, to be used for good purposes. No man would be kept out of Heaven for being poor, but many would, doubtless, for having too much riches. Christ's leaching was to the effect that no man should expect to take the whole of his rights in this world. The preacher went on to draw his lesson from Christ's advice to the rich young man, and concluded his sermon by declaring- that without Christ in ids life a man would be poor indeed. —Waikato Independent.