Sheer Love of Gold

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 12, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 36.

Sheer Love of Gold

THE love of money, the simple, sheer love of gold, is the root cause of the great industrial disturbances of the day. "They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 1 Tim. 6: 9, 10.

"The love of money is the root of all evil"—not money, but the "love of money." Through this love, men are drawn into "snares" and into "foolish and hurtful lusts" which "drown" them in "destruction and perdition."

The infinite God holds the evil forces in check in so far as it is possible for Him to do so without compromising His righteous and just character. Let us hope and pray that this storm of violence may for still a little longer period be kept from breaking upon our great nation.

But, on the other hand, let us not be blinded to the indisputable fact that forces are rapidly gathering, not only in this nation, but throughout the world, that will soon break into a storm of furious revolution which will be as much greater than anything that has appeared in the past as the wickedness of this time is more general and more pronounced throughout the world than anything that the history of the ages affords.

Said the inspired apostle, "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come." Those days are here, and the little calms that we may have from time to time must not be allowed to blind our eyes to the forces that are so rapidly gathering for action.