COVETOUSNESS by United Presbyterian

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 31, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 13.

COVETOUSNESS.

By United Presbyterian

COVETOUSNESS is the deadliest sin of the church and nation to-day. Destroy this sin in the church, and you cut the withes that bind a giant. Free the church from the sinful love of money, the root of all evil, and she will send out missionaries by the ship load. If we want to cut the tap-roots of our great national sins, we must strike at covetousness. It is the vital force in the drunkard-making business, and in all civil and political corruption. It fills the anarchist's bombs, and is the potent element in the philosophy of socialism. It is the most blinding of all sins. Nothing can so fully close the head and heart against the gospel. It is as deadly in the hovel as in the palace, in a village home as in a farmer's mansion.

Let us, then, cease speaking of covetousness as a sin that leans to virtue's side, as a very little sin, a most respectable, genteel sin, which anyone may commit, and still hold a high place in good society and in the church. Let us rather teach that the covetous must take their place where God has put them, between "thieves" and "drunkards."—United Presbyterian.