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The Extravagance of the Rich

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 11, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 6.

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The Extravagance of the Rich

While Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, leader in society, feels that conditions are far from normal, especially as between the rich and the poor, she certainly is not helping it by arranging a ball which cost $50,000. It is the elaborate, undue extravagance of the rich which arouses the envy and increases the discontent of the poor. If those who are rich could but recognize their responsibility to God and to their fellow men, there would be no such class feelings as we have nowadays. God gives men power to make money, but that money ought to be used to His glory.