The New Life

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XLVIIL
MONEY.
*• Money answereth all things."—Eccles. x. 19.
" I verily dedicate the silver unto the I^ord from my hand."—
JUDG. xvii. 3.
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' Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the
bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine
own with interest." Matt. xxv. 27.
IT is in his dealing with the world and its possessions,
that the Christian finds one of the opportunities
in which he is to manifest his self-denial and
the spirit of discretion.' Since it is in money that
all value or property on earth still finds its expression,
so it is especially in his dealing with money
that he can show whether he is free from worldliness
to deny himself and to serve his God. In order
rightly to comprehend this, we must consider for a
little what falls to be said about money.
What is money the token of? It is the token of
the work by which a man earns it : of his industry,
and zeal, and ability in that work : of his success and
the blessing of God upon the work. It is also the
token of all that I can do with money : the token of
the work that others would do for me, of the power
that I thereby have to accomplish what I desire, of
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John xvii. 15, 16 ; i Cor. vii. 31.
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