Average Annual Increase of Wealth of Church-Members in the 

 L'nited States from 1880 to 1890, $434,790,000. 



Contributions to Home and Foreign Missions in 1890. $10,095,259. 



CHAPTER XV. 



MONEY AND THE KINGDOM. 



Property is one of the cardinal facts of our civiliza- 

 tion. It is the great object of endeavor, the great spring 

 of power, the great occasion of discontent, and one of 

 the great sources of danger. For Christians to appre- 

 hend their true relations to money, and the relations of 

 money to the kingdom of Christ and its progress in the 

 world, is to find the key to many of the great problems 

 now pressing for solution. 



Money is power in the concrete. It commands learn- 

 ing, skill, experience, wisdom, talent, influence, numbers. 

 It represents the school, the college, the church, the 

 printing-press, and all evangelizing machinery. It con- 

 fers on the wise man a sort of omnipresence. By means 



