LAYING UP TREASURES.
h If theT well-to-do citizen to-day, after paying half his income in rates and taxes, likes to give one-tenth of the remainder in charity, we commend his generosity; but it is a much greater sacriflce for him than it was for his grandfather," says the Very Rev. W. R. Inge, D.D., in the Guardian. "After satisfying his conscience in the matter of charity, and the rapacity of the Exchequer in the ihatter of taxes, what is our middle-class citizen to do with what is left of his income? I do not think that slinging texts will help us much. We are not to 'lay up treasures for ourselves upon earth' j but 'he who provideth not for his own family hath denied the faitb and is worse than an infldel' Modern social conditions are so utterly unlike those of Palestine in the time of our Lord that we shall be wise not to'look for explicit rules but to remember that Christianity introduced a new standard of values, by which money and the things which money can buy are lightly esteemed. There is not much about distribution in the New Testament; what is. aboufc consumption is all in favour of a vjry simplq
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 117, 3 June 1937, Page 4
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