you. There are dangers and perils
peculiar to a state of prosperity by Jared Bell Waterbury from
The Voyage of Life 1862. The cares of this world, the
deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things
entering in choke the word and it becomes unfruitful. Mark chapter
4 verse 19. how hard it is for the rich to
enter the kingdom of God indeed it is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
of God Luke chapter 18 verses 24 and 25 There are dangers and perils
peculiar to a state of prosperity. I understand how little apprehension
is felt by the votaries of the world in regard to the moral
dangers of earthly prosperity. Be it so, says the eager devotee
of wealth or fame. I admit there are some such dangers,
yet who would not be willing to run the risk, if he might
only be one of fortune's favourites? Give me my wishes in this respect,
and I am ready to incur the hazard and to take the responsibility.
Foolish declaration! You know not what you say. Your
selfish heart, thirsting for riches or reputation among men,
and bent on their attainment, as containing in your estimation
all that man can wish, sees not the evils which lurk in the path
that leads to them, nor the perils to which when obtained their
possessor is exposed. blind, or rather dazzled to blindness,
by that one object, the golden prize, you do not see the temptations
which beset the man who is determined to seize upon it. In the pursuit
of wealth, dishonesty, sinful worldliness, neglect of the soul,
in the possession of wealth, avarice, pride, sensuality. The deceitfulness of riches is
a scriptural expression which experience interprets and verifies. These are deceitful. Their power to make happy is
mere pretension. Riches may add to one's happiness
who has other and higher elements of felicity. But when they are
sought as the principal means of happiness, they are sure to
pierce their possessors through with many sorrows. For the love
of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have
strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows. But you, O man of God, flee these
things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience,
gentleness. 1st Timothy chapter 6 verse 10
and 11 you