Winged Wealth

Men love wealth. It promises power and control to those who acquire it, security from famine, and hope in sickness or injury. Wealth promises pleasure and fulfillment in life, happiness, and ease in the time of retirement. It promises to alleviate the sorrows that have come in the wake of sin, and stave off death, the great enemy, for just awhile longer. Who is there that is not by nature attracted to such a promise? But wealth is a wily sort of creature. Riches “certainly make themselves...