Every extravagance should be cut out of our lives,
for the time we have for work is short. All around us we see want and suffering.
Families are in need of food; little ones are crying for bread. The houses
of the poor lack proper furniture and bedding. Many live in mere hovels
which are almost destitute of conveniences. The cry of the poor reaches
to heaven. God sees; God hears. But many glorify themselves. While their
fellow men are poor and hungry, suffering for want of food, they expend
much on their tables and eat far more than they require. What an account
men will by and by have to render for their selfish use of God's money!
Those who disregard the provision God has made for the poor will find not
only that they have robbed their fellow men, but that in robbing them they
have robbed God and have embezzled His goods.