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will withhold the happiness, and the next 
year may withhold the increase of the 
ground. 
There are wicked men whom the Lord lets 
alone as he did Moab. They are joined to 
the idol of wealth, and the Lord permits 
them to make all the money they can, and 
do with it what they please ; and many such 
become rich. God knows they will have a 
hard time of it in hell, where, like the rich 
man spoken of by the Savior, they will be 
denied water to cool their tongues, and he 
lets them enjoy their idol while here on 
earth. 
But the case is different with persons of 
enlightened consciences, who have tasted 
that God is good, and who (though they may 
have lost it ) once possessed the pardoning 
love of God in their hearts. Such persons 
are prepared to appreciate the blessings of 
salvation to some extent, at least ; and hence 
they must feel the importance of "giving 
as the Lord hath prospered them," to send 
the gospel, with its untold blessings, to those 
who have it not. I verily believe that 
such will be cursed in their basket and store 
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