o is making
money is the man who stands in the position of a peculiar danger. For
the men who can rapidly accumulate money and at the same time be loyal
to Jesus Christ are few indeed.

While I was in Dallas the other day I talked to a friend who was a man
of wealth. He said without enthusiasm, "I have made more money this
year than I ever made before." And then I questioned him regarding his
work in the Church. At one time he had been the teacher of a very
large class of boys. He told me that he had given up his Sunday School
work, that he had given up all his religious work. Then I said, "If
you had a thermometer for registering happiness, I suppose your
thermometer would register lower to-day than at any other time since
you came into the Church." And with sadness he acknowledged that such
was the case.

Yes, Barnabas was sound in the doctrine of stewardship. And I am fully
persuaded that the man who is genuinely Christian in his attitude
toward money will be Christian in every other relationship of life.
And I am likewise fully persuaded that the man who fails here, who
falls short of the standard of goodness here, will fall short
everywhere. A man may be a liberal man and fail to be a good man, but
no man can be a good man and at the same time be a gripping, grasping,
covetous man. It is an utter impossibility. Barnabas got a degree in
goodness, and the first course he mastered was a course in Christian
Stewardship.

Second, Barnabas was proficient in that difficult branch that we call
faith. He had acquired faith till he was full of it. Faith in God?
Yes, he had faith in God. That lies back of all that he did and all
that he became. But the faith that shows itself most in his life, as
we see it, is his faith in men. How he did believe in folks!
Confidence in men is an essential to true goodness. I do not believe
that any cynic was ever a really good man. I know we sometimes pride
ourselves on being hard to fool. We congratulate ourselves at times on
being able to see more through a key-hole than other folks can see
through a wide-open door. We boast of our ability to read character
and to see behind the scenes and to detect sham where other folks
dreamed there was sincerity. And I am not arguing for blindness or
stupidity, but what I do say is this: that the really good men are the
men who believe in their fellows.

You have met the man who says that every fellow has his price. But
when