Short extracts from his talk will show the drift of his entire belief on this subject: "'Every dollar that a man has should be spent to the glory of God.
"'The teaching of Christianity about wealth is the same as about anything else; it all belongs to God, and should be used by the man as God would use it in the man's place.
"'It is a great mistake which many people make, church-members among the rest, that the money they get is their own to do with as they please.
Men have no right to use anything as they please unless God pleases so too.
"'The accumulation of vast sums of money by individuals or classes of men has always been a bad thing for society.

A few very rich men and a great number of very poor men is what gave the world the French Revolution and the guillotine.
"'There are certain conditions true of society at certain times when it is the Christian duty of the rich to use every cent they possess to relieve the need of society.

Such a condition faces us to-day.
"'The foolish and unnecessary expenditures of society on its trivial pleasures at a time when men and women are out of work and children are crying for food is a cruel and unchristian waste of opportunity.
"'If Christ were here to-day I believe he would tell the rich men of Milton that every cent they have belongs to Almighty God, and they are only trustees of his property.
"'This is the only true use of wealth: that the man who has it recognize its power and privilege to make others happy, not provide himself luxury.
"'The church that thinks more of fine architecture and paid choirs than of opening its doors to the people that they may hear the gospel, is a church that is mortgaged for all it is worth to the devil, who will foreclose at the first opportunity.
"'The first duty of every man who has money is to ask himself, What would Christ have me do with it?
The second duty is to go and do it, after hearing the answer.
"'If the money owned by church-members were all spent to the glory of God there would be fewer hundred-thousand-dollar churches built and more model tenements.
"'If Christ had been a millionaire he would have used his money to build up character in other people, rather than build a magnificent brown-stone palace for himself.

But we cannot imagine Christ as a millionaire.
"'It is just as true now as when Paul said it nearly twenty centuries ago: "The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil;" it is the curse of our civilization, the greatest god of the human race to-day.
"'Our civilization is only partly Christian.

For Christian civilization means more comforts; ours means more wants.
"'If a man's pocket-book is not converted with his soul the man will not get into heaven with it.
"'There are certain things that money alone can secure; but among those things it cannot buy is character.
"'All wealth, from the Christian standpoint, is in the nature of trust funds, to be so used as the administrator, God, shall direct.