You tread on difficult ground when you enter society's realm." "Well, dear, I will be as wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove, although I must confess I never knew just exactly how much that verse meant.

But preach on it I must and will." And when the first Sunday of the month came, Philip did preach on it, to the dismay of several members of his church who were in the habit of giving entertainments and card parties on a somewhat elaborate scale.
He had never preached on the subject of amusements, and he stated that he wished it to be plainly understood that he was not preaching on the subject now.

It was a question which went deeper than that, and took hold of the very first principles of human society.

A single passage in the sermon will show the drift of it all.
"We have reached a time in the history of the world when it is the Christian duty of every man who calls himself a disciple of the Master to live on a simpler, less extravagant basis.

The world has been living beyond its means.