Excerpt from Property Consecrated, or Honoring God With Our Substance: An Inquiry Into the Will of God in Relation to Property, and an Examination of the Temporal and Spiritual Advantage Arising From Its Right UseBonpring God. To this the good man is solemnly devoted. He often regrets that he does not better succeed in accomplishn it. He asks with deep concern, How shall I honor God i Especially, How shall I honor him with my earthly possessions? These are too often a snare to him. He finds himself unduly attached to them. His con. Science not unfrequently rebukes him for the reluctance he feels in parting with them, even for the noblest purposes of Christian benevolence. He mourns over this weak ness, if not evidence of remaining deprav ity. He would desire, we assume, to be relieved from these embarrassments - to learn how he can make all his worldly employments subserve his Spiritual inter ests - how he can become happy in giv~ ing all due support to the claims of God how he may, so far as his responsibility ex tends, remove all temporal embarrassments from the Church, and secure the greatest possible efficiency for all her enterprises. Let him read this little book. It will con duct him to God's own method of solving allthese problems, and at the same time se cure the richest returns of true satisfaction, business prosperity, and spiritual enlarge ment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.