Money
by Thomas Binney (9780217789097)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART THIRD. Systematic Get all you can; Save all you can; Give all you can. John Wesley. 1 Cob. iv. 2. " It is required of stewards that a man be found faithful." Luke xvr. 10?12. " He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not heen faithful in the un righteous Mammon, who shall commit unto your trust the true riches ? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?" I NOW wish to secure attention to some of those practical lessons, which we should carry away with us and resolve to act upon, as the result of the discussion in which we have been engaged. To give something like order to these, we purpose to keep in view the spirit and ohject of the two passages which have just been read as the basis of the present discourse. You are all familiar with the idea of " Stewardship " as a Scriptural designation for the obligationsand responsibilities of a Christian man. The word is sometimes specially applied to ministers?to those who sustained an official function, with its recognized relations and duties in the Church?or to those who were distinguished by spiritual gifts and supernatural endowments, conferred for the benefit of the whole body. But " Stewardship " is not confined to such. It is something which attaches to every individual, and which extends to everything that belongs to him. The Apostles were " Stewards of the mysteries of God; " a bishop was " to be blameless as the steward of God; "t Christ spake of the faithful and wise steward, " whom his Lord should place over his household; "J ?but this class of passages by no means exhausts the Scriptural representation. The teachin...

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