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46 and merchandize, deeming them injurious to the Lacedamonians- — Lay notes —

In an old edition of Edmundson's Journal, at the conclusion of one of the chapters in which that author admonishes his readers against the love of riches, Lay notes—

"Mammon—cursed love of mammon — mammon surfeits and corrupts the mind, and darkens the understanding—Oh the blessed doctrine and practice of the first christians, which kept out luxury, pride, and cursed covetousness."

In another part of the same work, he remarks; with appropriate allusion to the subject,

And equally applicable is his annotation on another of the chapters,

" A few things will serve a right mind, for the world's glory hath destroyed many."