Pray for the Man Getting Rich
By Presbyterian
It is said that a small slip of paper was laid on a pulpit cushion, where it would meet the eyes of the preacher, with the following words thereon: "The prayers of this congregation are requested for a man who is getting rich." A small danger, some may think, needing no supplications for deliverance and safety. Nay, the peril is great, though it may not beset a man at once with overwhelming power. "I really must give up the superintendency of the Sabbath-school, my business presses me so," says one. "My husband is deep in a profitable speculation," said a wife, "and he has no time now to go with me to the prayer-meeting as he used to." "My young parishioner," said a pastor, "was once satisfied with two thousand dollars a year. He is making ten thousand now, and he is not content with that, and it is spoiling him as a Christian." Pray for the man who is "getting rich."