Our Unlimited Capacity
CHAPTER XI
CONTENTMENT is one of the richest jewels that a home can have, and when its foundation is a knowledge of Truth it abides forever and becomes a powerful magnet to draw to a person the best in people and in things.
When contentment is mated with poverty there is usually some false reasoning at the root of the situation. Sometimes it is a yielding to circumstances as inevitable, a kind of fatalism, but oftener the cause of it lies in the religious training, especially the doctrine that Christianity and poverty are logical associates and that the greatest of all Christians Himself was poor, having “not where to lay his head.”
JESUS NOT POOR
We know now that we cannot call Jesus Christ poor, any more than we can think of the King of England as being poor simply because he has no money in his pocket. Jesus had command of forces that could have made Him a Croesus in a moment, but He would not be cumbered with property.
If one chooses to go without, all right. But to be forced to go without and even to be in debt is not a free state and therefore not true Christianity. For
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