A RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
GOD AND MAMMON “As Jesus looked on life, He saw how the passionate quest for riches was starving all the higher ideals of life. Men were concentrating their souls on money until they could think of nothing else. For mammon’s sake they were turning away from the Kingdom of Heaven. The spirit of covetousness was breaking the peace of households, setting brother against brother, making men hard and fierce and relentless. To take heed that we do not pay too dearly for money is a warning that comes to us from every page of the life of Jesus, Who said, ‘Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’ ” (Rev. George Jackson in “ Jesus On Money.” '
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32412, 27 March 1944, Page 8
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116A RELIGIOUS THOUGHT Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32412, 27 March 1944, Page 8
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