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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...and motives in holding great estates! May we look upon our treasures, and the furniture of our houses, and the garments in which we array ourselves, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions, or not. Holding treasures in the self-pleasing spirit is a strong plant, the fruit whereof ripens fast." Every conscience will surely bear witness to the truth of this warning that luxury is the seed of war and of oppression; the earnest desire "to be disentangled from everything connected with selfish customs," must find an echo in every Christian heart. But what is luxury? we shall be asked: and how can we be so disentangled from it, as to be clear of the reproach of the misery which goes along with it? The problem is essentially a practical one, and the answer will be found by those, and only by those, who honestly desire to work it out in their own lives. When we speak of the duty of renouncing superfluities, we are certain to be met with the objections that it is impossible really to draw a line between superfluities and necessaries; that, in fact, what are superfluities to some are necessaries to others; and that if we made it our object to pare down our way of living to the very utmost, we should have to become mere hermits, and to sacrifice to the achievement many of the good and useful purposes of life. From these obvious and undeniable truths, many people, in our time and country, come to the conclusion that there is no sense or meaning in the idea of renouncing superfluities, and that what we cannot theoretically and precisely limit we may unlimitedly indulge. But the Christian instinct goes deeper than this. With or without a completely satisfactory theory, it is matter of familiar...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230452109
- ISBN 13 9781230452104
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages44
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