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 everything in the midst of abundance. He fancies himself far wiser, because he is enjoying his possessions: yet God calls him ' thou fool.'

In fact, one is a fool through too much saving, and through imagining that riches which he does not use can make him happy; and the other is equally a fool for his over-indulgence, and for believing himself secure in the ownership of goods that he may be deprived of any night. 'Take heed’ therefore ' and beware’ of every kind of covetousness: — alike of the spendthrift’s and the miser’s. Be ' rich towards God ’: make your sole treasure of Him and His goodness; for, where this Treasure is concerned, we may enjoy freely. It will never diminish by spending, because the more it is used the larger it grows.