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T is amazing to see a people, professing to be preeminently Christian, and accepting the Bible as the infallible rule of faith and practice, going directly and persistently contrary to its plainest and most unequivocal teachings and commandments. No wonder the world is full of skeptics and infidels.

Compare for a moment the practices of so-called Bible-believers, with their professions.

'Thou shalt nor covet.' 'Labor not to be rich.' 'Ye cannot serve God and mammon.' 'Lay not up treasures on earth.' 'No covetous man hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.' 'They that will be rich, run into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts.' 'The deceitfulness of riches choke the word.' 'To be carnally minded is death; to be spiritually minded is life and peace.' 'He that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.' 'There is, that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing.' 'We have corrupted ourselves in the greatness of our abundance; we have eaten and are full; and when our flocks and our herds multiplied, beyond whatever happened to any nation, then our hearts were lifted up and we forgot God.' 'Whoso hath this world's goods, and