Wesley: "Gain all you can" but...
In his sermon entitled "The Use of Money, " John Wesley summarizes his advice on the scriptural and spiritual use of money to these three admonitions: Gain all you can Save all you can Give all you can. His summary expands upon this a bit in this way: " Gain all you can, without hurting either yourself or your neighbour, in soul or body, by applying hereto with unintermitted diligence, and with all the understanding which God has given you; -- save all you can, by cutting off every expense which serves only to indulge foolish desire; to gratify either the desire of flesh, the desire of the eye, or the pride of life; waste nothing, living or dying, on sin or folly, whether for yourself or your children; -- and then, give all you can, or, in other words, give all you have to God." In my last post, I intimated that Wesley might have a few things to say to those persons in the financial world who have benefitted personally from practices that have resulted in l...