Power and Weakness of Money (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Power and Weakness of Money As I waited for a train one day in a railway-station I heard two men conversing in a rather irreverent and bantering way about religion. "Yes," said one, whose dress bespoke him a laboring-man not overburdened with this world's goods, "I believe in religion. Money! That's my religion. That does about everything for a man, as near as I can find out." Ah! thought I; your jest is more than half earnest. Nor are you alone in devotion to the religion you so frankly profess. There are thousands and tens of thousands of your fellow-citizens who deep down in their hearts cherish the same unspoken creed and live up to it with unswerving, and even passionate, devotion. Jesus recognized the existence of such a religion and its popularity in his day when he spoke of mammon as God's great rival for the homage and service of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.