THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON MONEY MAKING.
Preaching before a crowded congregation in his Cathedral, the Bishop of Manchester called attention to the inordinate desire to amass wealth in the present day. He said it was the want of a cheerful and contented spirit that was so disorganising and corrupting modern society. We saw on all sides of us a wild race for wealth. The old maxim which tho satirist Horace said prevailed in the Augustan age of Borne was embodied again and again : —" Make money —honestly if you can —but make money anyhow." Then there woro the anxieties about rank and position in society, tho rivalries and jealousios, the wretched shifts to maintain appearances, and now and then the cuddan collapse of some rich man who a moment before was worshipped almost as a god because he was so rich. He did not depreciate the worth of what wealth rightly and wisely employed could do. What he condemned was the false measure of prosperity which seemed to him to be penetrating every rank and stratum of society and threatening its ruin.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2046, 14 September 1880, Page 3
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