Nature Plans Abundance for All

Another introductory consideration worthy our attention is the fact that the evident plan of God as revealed in nature is abundance for all. Poverty is no part of nature's plan but the very reverse is true Nature designed abundance for all. Her provision for man's wants covers not only his necessities but a super abundance is the law of Nature's beneficence.

The tracing of disease, poverty and suffering to the design of God was, indeed, a part of the Old Theology, which is now practically dead and superseded by the New Theology which traces all of these evils to ignorance and neglect of law.

As children of God we inherit not only the right to life, but to all that makes life worth living. But every life is cabin'd, cribbed, confined by poverty. In fact freedom, power, happiness, education, culture, travel, books, art, music, recreation the things that made life worth the living are really impossible without wealth.

Not only is our own life robbed of its full and happy expression by poverty, but man's service of his fellowmen is limited on every hand by poverty.

Men who possess in their own mentality great truths that would instruct and inspire the multitude, or great plans for reforming our deplorable social and economic system, or great purposes of charity toward the needy, or great reforms they would like to see realized find themselves hampered and hindered in all their noble work by lack of funds.

The world sad to state estimates a man not by his knowledge, or his character, so much as by the size of his bank account. A public lecturer said recently in my hearing and was applauded in saying it he respected no man who did not have a good bank account.

Harsh as this may appear, we shall show there is at least a small measure of justice in it by pointing out that Poverty is essentially a Mental Disease, and that from the standpoint of character itself in this age of golden opportunities it is no credit to a man to be poor.