Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

To obtain wealth by unjust dealing, by
overreaching in trade, by oppressing the widow
and the fatherless, or by hoarding up riches and
neglecting the wants of the needy, will eventually
bring the just retribution described by the inspired
apostle: "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl
for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your
riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the
rust of them shall be a witness against you, and
shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped
treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire
of the laborers who have reaped down your fields,
which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the
cries of them which have reaped are entered into
the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth."
The humblest and poorest of the true disciples
of Christ, who are rich in good works, are more
blessed and more precious in the sight of God than
the men who boast of their great riches. They are
more honorable in the courts of heaven than the
most exalted kings and nobles who are not rich
toward God.
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