Show accumulating possession there Is not a vice which more e factually contracts and deadens the feelings which more completely makes a man s affections center in himself and excludes all others from partaking in them than the desire of accumulating possessions when the desire has once gotten hold of the heart it shuts out all other cons eions but such as may promote its views in its zeal tor the attainment of its end it is not delicate in the choice of means As it closes the heart also it clouds the understand ing it cannot discern between right and wrong U takes evil for good and good tor evil it calls darkness light and light darkness bishop mant |