THE WORSHIP OF MAMMON.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5851, 31 December 1879, Page 2

THE WORSHIP OF MAMMON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES Sl R> With all our churches, ministers of religion, and religious teaching, we, as a people, are most inveterate worshippers of Mammon ; the worship of the all-wise and benevolent Spirit being with us bat a secondary consideration, while to Mammon we, by our every-day life and conversation, declare, “ This is the God we adore, our faithful and unchangeable friend.” This is not confined to the worlding or non-professing Christian, but it reigns rampant iu the very sanctuary of the Most High, and pervades -the very .thoughts of the most devout. The first question that arises iu the mind and npds vent in articulation from many a most Christian mamma when some young man pA's his addresses to her daughter is, “ What are hk worldly means and prospects ?” because, she argues, although my husband’s salary—poor fellow, he has never had any push in him—has always been very small, andT have had the greatest difficulty to make’ both ends meet—there_ comes Mr. Smith's man with that draper's bill again—l have always kept my daughters, respectable, and I am sure my Jane shall never, with my consent, have to cook, wash, mend, and scrub for any man,” the chances being that Jana is almost entirely ignorant of how to perform 7 either the one or the other of Cnese houeehom duties, although she has nothing to bring to » husband but perhaps a little bill for ner Is* three new dresses and hats, including sorr smaller articles of-finery. Such ar ? 0 our Christian mothers) and daughters h should set an example, not only o g g church, but of industry mothers and daughters lot J do well to make a stndy of the last chanter of the Book <>f Proverbs, from the tenth verse to the end. The adoption olthese principles by our wiveb, mothers, and daugh.

tera would go a great way to banish, not only Want and discontent, and convert our homes into so many little kingdoms of peace and plenty, but would also become a most potent lever in our national elevation and reformation. As is the family, so will be the State—the former being the neucles of the latter.—l am, &c., Reformer.