Not merely to pay--which the very publicans in our Lord's time did--but
to give, generously, liberally; lending, if we can afford it, as our Lord
bids us, hoping for nothing again; and remembering that he who giveth to
the poor lendeth to the Lord, and whatsoever he layeth out, it shall be
repaid him again.
Yes, my friends, we must all needs take our Lord's advice--make to
yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail,
they may receive you into everlasting habitations. WHEN YE FAIL--
literally, when you are eclipsed, as the sun is eclipsed. That must
happen to all of us, to the best, the wisest, the most famous. Each must
be eclipsed, and passed in the race of life, and forgotten for some
younger man. Each in turn must fail. One may fail in money--the mammon
for which he toiled may take to itself wings and fly away; or he may fail
in his plans, noble plans, and useful though they seemed; and he may
find, as he grows old, that the world has not gone HIS way, but quite
another one; or he may fail in health, and be cut down and crippled, and
laid by in the midst of his work.
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