THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
Preaching before a crowded congregation in his cathedral recently, the Bishop of Manchester called attention to the inordinate desire to amass wealth in the present day. Ho said it was the want of a cheerful and contented spirit that was so disorganising and corrupting modern society. Vc saw on all sides of us a wild race for wealth. The old maxim which the satirist Horace said prevailed in the Augustan age of Pome was embodied again and can—but make money anyhow.” Then there were the anxieties about rank and position in society, the rivalries and jealousies, the wretched shifts to maintain appearances, and now and then the sudden 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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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2344, 21 September 1880, Page 2
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174THE WAY OF THE WORLD. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2344, 21 September 1880, Page 2
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