MATERIAL SUCCESS
“ Because he believed that material success was an evidence of divine favour, the ancient Hebrew often equated prosperity with virtue. Shetep, religion, and camels, righteousness, milk, •and honey, were not uncommon themes for pious meditation, and our own age is not far from a period when the doctrine was reduced to a copybook formula: ‘Early to b'ed and early to rise makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise.’ Multitudes of men serve Mammon with all their heart for the first years of life, and then, when they reach the summit of the arch, turn back in search of life’s lost radiance. When the passion for gain and status has exhausted itse,f in success, it is natural to turn back to the haunts of early vision, to the place where w*3 first experienced the sanctity and mystery of existence, and imagine that a return to the place will enable us to recover these fine experiences. It is there that most of us come upon tragic disappointmentsit is there we learn that wa can never relieve old emotions, but must find a way to restore old relations, but how? ” —Dr Harris E. Kirk.
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Waipa Post, Volume 51, Issue 3645, 19 July 1935, Page 4
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194MATERIAL SUCCESS Waipa Post, Volume 51, Issue 3645, 19 July 1935, Page 4
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