Extravagance and Worldliness
Extravagance and Worldliness.—Louis A. Banks, D.D., in the N. Y. Voice, thus notes an instance of the worldliness in the professed Christian: "A big steam yacht has just arrived in America on its first trip, which cost its owner, an American citizen, over $600,000. There seems to be no end to the wild race of extravagance among those who are piling up the added millions. One of the hardest foes the church has to contend against to-day is the fact that men who call themselves Christian, taking the name of the ever-loving, self-denying, burden-bearing, burden-sharing Christ, will spend a half million of dollars on a yacht built for their own indolent pleasure, while they give grudgingly to carry Christlike help and sympathy to the weak and the overborne."