8. The conscience is yet alert to condemn the wrong and to approve the right. The public conscience was never more tender nor more delicately adjusted, but it is wanting in intelligence in this matter. The eye cannot see to determine the nature of an object without light, so the conscience must be enlightened, or made intelligent by the reason, to enable it to give a right decision. Conscience is the same in all ages among all peoples, and when informed by investigation and reasoning, the condemnation of usury will be as unanimous as in the centuries of the past.
Prayer is also a means to this righteous end. God is still on His throne. His ear is not heavy. He hears the cry of the raven and sparrows and lions. He hears the cry of His suffering children and will not fail to come to their relief. In all the past, man's extremity has been God's opportunity. Relief has come at unexpected times and by ways that were not known. Sometimes by means that were insignificant and inadequate in order to show that it was not by human might or power; sometimes by the faith of one humble believer.
This writer has been familiar with the story of David and Goliath from his infancy. To him, Mammon, whose head is usury, is the giant Philistine who now stalks forth to defy "the armies of the living God," and with a grain of David's faith, he flings this stone.
INDEX[ToC]
- Abstinence, [255]
- Agar—Prayer of, [219]
- American Revision, [87]
- American Statesman, [172]
- Aristotle, [132], [259]
- Average Interest, [135]
- Bank of England, [184], [195]
- Bank of Venice, [193]
- Bank, First in U.S., [198]
- Banks and Brokers, [161]
- Bacon, [108], [180], [266]
- Banking, Claim for, [56]
- Barriers Broken Down, [45]
- Borrower, [62]
- Borrowing, [241]
- Benton, Thomas H., [199]
- Bankruptcy, [176]
- Basil, [169]
- Beza, [71]
- Bible and Nature, [93]
- Bible Encyclopedia, [8], [21]
- Block Stone, [10]
- Brotherhood—Christian, [47]
- Bush, Prof. Geo., [14]
- Bureau of Engraving, [123]
- Capital Combines, [223]
- Catechism, [233]
- Cato, [261]
- Car Fares, [164]
- Calvin, Institutes of, [78]
- Calvin, Letter of, [73], [162], [248]
- Calhoun, J.C., [199]
- Capital Demands, [165]
- Cretan Bonds, [204]
- Chalmers, [62]
- Charlemagne, [70]
- Changed Conditions, [81]
- Chattel Slave, [147]
- Character in Fathers, [206]
- Cheever, Rev. Geo., [286]
- Creeds, [272]
- Croesus, [218]
- Covetousness, [61], [214], [273]
- Cooper Anecdote, [274]
- City Debts, [140], [168]
- Criminal in Court, [127]
- Coachman, [111]
- Chrysostom, [69]
- Christ-like Soul, [42]
- Council of Ten, [195]
- Cyrus, [36]
- David, [26]
- Debts, Discharged, [63]
- Debts, Stimulated, [138]
- Debts, Church, [141]
- Debts, National, [142], [189]
- Decay, Limits, [136]
- Deposit or Loan, [105]
- Diligence, [60]
- Disciples, Practice of, [58]
- Deacon Giles' Distillery, [286]
- Dives, [218]
- Doge, The, [194]
- Dueling, [282]
- Edward III, [263]
- Edward VI, [264]
- England, History, [262]
- English People, [192]
- Elizabeth, [264]
- Esau's Abstinence, [256]
- Equality Impossible, [222]
- Ethics in Bible, [94]
- Equity Between Thieves, [160]
- Exchanges, [56]
- Express Company, [118]
- Extravagance, [155]
- Ezekiel's Protests, [31]
- Ezra, [36]
- Family Economy, [154]
- Farm Preserved, [135], [247]
- Farm Consumed, [246]
- Faithful Steward, [117]
- Fathers, Apostolic, [69], [80]
- Fathers, Later, [70], [80]
- Financial Slavery, [150]
- Force in Abstract, [99]
- Fishers' Catechism, [235]
- Freight Rates, [109]
- "Golden Book", [194]
- Gambling, [283]
- Giving, [51]
- Gravity Levels, [222]
- Great Enterprises, [239]
- Greek Artist, [216]
- Greece, History, [258]
- Guile, Taken by, [104]
- Hebrews in Egypt, [212]
- Henry II, [262]
- Henry III, [263]
- Henry VII, [263]
- Henry VIII, [264]
- Hindoo Widow, [24]
- Honesty Hindered, [210]
- Hodge, Dr. Charles, [237]
- Home Wanted, [251]
- Horace, [261]
- Human Nature, [81]
- Hume, [192]
- Incorporated Properties, [171]
- Industry Discouraged, [207]
- Indians, Omahas, [244]
- Injustice, Submitted, [120]
- Interest Defined, [9]
- Insurance Company, [119], [254]
- Interest, Compound, [180]
- Installment Plan, [140]
- Intemperance, [283]
- Jackson, Andrew, [200]
- Jefferson, Thos., [200]
- Jennet, M., [182]
- Jeremy Bentham, [113]
- Jeremiah Protests, [30]
- Jubilee, Year of, [45]
- Justinian Code, [261]
- King Alfred, [262]
- Khedive, [203]
- Land Question, [249]
- Lombards, [195]
- London Tenants, [169]
- Luther, [71]
- Macauley, [196]
- Machinery, Improved, [226]
- Mammon, [203], [221]
- Melancthon, [71]
- Messiah's Character, [42]
- Moral Law, [82]
- Milton, [145], [203]
- Minuits, Peter, [181]
- Middle Classes, [220]
- Mons Sacer, [260]
- Money Barren, [83], [122]
- Moses, [57]
- Mosaic Laws, [11], [14]
- McCullough, Sec., [201]
- Nature and Bible, [93]
- Nehemiah, [36], [40], [57], [63]
- Nile Worship, [214]
- Obsolete Words, [7]
- One Cent Loaned, [182]
- Ottoman Empire, [212]
- Over-production, [156]
- Panics, [187]
- Paul to Timothy, [59]
- Paulist Fathers, [65]
- Pounds, Parable of, [54]
- Peel, Sir Robert, [196]
- Physicians' Charges, [115]
- Poor Richard, [240]
- Poor, Oppressed, [154]
- Poor, to the Spirit, [48]
- Popes, [70]
- Polygamy, [85]
- Production, Limited, [158]
- Promoter, [161]
- Prime, Dr., [285]
- Rates, Differ Why, [108]
- Rentals of Land, [243]
- Revolution, [238]
- Ridpath, [71]
- Rich Fool, [49], [137]
- Rights, Personal, [98]
- Rights, Equal, [102]
- Risk, [253]
- Robe, [111]
- Rome, History, [250]
- Ruskin, [72], [156], [255]
- Sands, Bishop, [70]
- Sabbath of Rest, [85], [171]
- Schaff-Herzog, [8], [69]
- Scripture Passages:
- Genesis 21:26, [7]
- Exodus 32:1, [7]
- Exodus 22:25, [13], [20]
- Leviticus 19:33, [34], [21]
- Leviticus 22:22, [19]
- Leviticus 23:23, [22]
- Leviticus 34:10, [22]
- Deut. 5:14, [24]
- Deut. 25:19, [17]
- Deut. 15:7-9, [44]
- Numbers 15:15, [16], [19]
- Joshua 9:23, [22]
- Psalm 15, [26]
- Psalm 92, [7]
- Psalm 112:1-3, [15]
- Proverbs 22:4, [15]
- Proverbs 28:20, [15], [27]
- Jeremiah 31:29, [32]
- Isaiah 10:15, [101]
- Ezekiel 24:15-18, [31]
- Ezekiel 22:7-12, [31]
- Ezekiel 18:117, [33]
- Matthew 5:17, [43]
- Matthew 6:12, [45]
- Matthew 13:22, [48]
- Matthew 19:24, [49]
- Matthew 25:14, [52]
- Luke 6:35, [44]
- Luke 51:52, [53], [47]
- Luke 19:12, [52]
- John 15:12, [46]
- John 13:34, [46]
- Romans 1:13, [7]
- Romans 13:8, [62]
- Acts 3:17, [7]
- Acts 2:44, [45], [58]
- 1 Corinthians 1:27, [28], [58]
- 1 Corinthians 13, [8]
- Ephesians 4:28, [60]
- 1 Thess. 4:15, [7]
- 1 Timothy 5:8, [59]
- James 5:1-6, [61]
- Slaves, Happy, [148]
- Slaves, Chattel, [286]
- Self Reliance, [211]
- Strangers, Three Classes, [18]
- Shoe Plant, [128]
- Shylock, [121], [195]
- Slot Machines, [104]
- Solomon and Usury, [27], [144]
- Solon, [218], [259]
- Socialism, [289]
- Spirituality Destroyed, [216]
- Stevens, Thadeus, [201]
- Strikes, [227]
- Sultan, [203]
- Sun Worship, [214]
- Superstitions, [282]
- Taxes Off the Poor, [168]
- Tenantry, [250]
- "The Hague", [230]
- Talents, Parable of, [52]
- Thrift, [51], [209]
- Time, [107], [254]
- Temptation to Upright, [149]
- Timon of Athens, [146]
- Tools, Not Productive, [135]
- Trade, Profits in, [124]
- Trusts, [186], [224]
- Usury, Definition, [8]
- Usury and the Stranger, [18]
- Valet, [145]
- Venice, [193]
- Vienna, Council of, [70]
- War, Evils of, [229]
- Webster, Definition, [9]
- Wealth Decays, [132]
- Wealth, Barren, [131]
- William and Mary, [195], [264], [279]
- Wilson's Catechism, [233]
- Wrong Laws, [279]
- Young Reformers, [187]
- Zaccheus, [49]
- Zerubbabel, [36]