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Editor’s Note: Following is a
very interesting address made by
the Rt. Rev. Richard S. M. Em
rich an Episcopalian Bishop at a
recent Synod meeting. It ap
plies to all denominations and re
prints of the article are available
free to churches and individuals.
Bishop Emrich’s remarks follow:
Like many young men when I first
entered the ministry I dreaded talking
to people about money. I felt that as
a clergyman I was ordained to preach
things spiritual, to guide men in their
spiritual lives, and to turn all my
energies in that direction. When,
therefore, the subject of money arose,
it was a material thing; and I felt
that this material side of life should
be left to the vestry. The vestry
would speak on this material side of
the Church’s life: I would lead in the
care of the spiritual. And I have no
doubt that the failure of the Church
financially in some parishes is due to
this embarrassment in speaking about
money.
But, of course, I soon came to see
that this attitude of mine was a com
plete mistake; was, indeed, a great
religious error. Let me show you in
these introductory remarks how I
came to see the error of my ways.
First, I was somewhat disturbed one
■day to realize that the Lord, who is
the Head and Foundation of the
■Church, spoke very often about
tnoney. It does not take any pro
found knowledge of Scripture to re
call that coins, a widow’s mite, a rich
man’s bams, laying up treasure, and
stewards have a prominent nlace in
our Lord’s thought. If the T r>-d talk
ed freely about possessions and money
it must have been for an excellent
reason; and it behooves his followers
in His Church to see clearly what this
reason is.
Second, I came to see that there is
no such cleavage between the material
and the spiritual, and that if you try
to maintain such a cleavage, you run
into great religious error. Actually
by the word spiritual, as applied to
your life and mine, we mean the man
ner in which we order our lives. A
great saint has a material body as
surely as a libertine: they took on
their bodies, order them in a different
manner. That is the only difference.
A devout Christian has money as
surely as does a thoroughly selfish
man—you can’t live in this society
without money: the difference is the
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way they order their lives and use
their money. We are not spirits above
matter—if we were we would be an
gels; nor are we simply bodies —if we
were we would be animals: we are, on
the contrary, body-spirits, matter and
spirit linked together. And the way
in which we order our lives, determine
our values, is our spiritual life. Since
as spiritual beings we have some kind
of freedom, we can use our money for
ourselves or we can use it for high
purposes.
Third, I came to see that the Lord
talked about money, because in this
world, there is nothing more impor
tant, nothing that reveals the condi
tion of a man’s soul as does his atti
tude toward his possessions. Money
represents our daily work and our
bread, and, therefore, when we give
it or withhold it, we are giving or
withholding ourselves. Money repre
sents power. It means that I can con
trol not only my own head and hands,
but also the headß and hands of oth
ers. Money as power means that a
man can have prestige, not only in
the eyes of others but also in his own
eyes. Money represents security in
this world, the desire for which can
be a spiritual disease; for when is a
man secure ? I know a sick man who
is fearful and insecure and a lobster
fisherman who is secure and strong.
The power of money can be seen in
that most crimes involve it, that ava
rice lies behind these crimes. There
fore the Son of God, bringing truth
to men, had to speak about money;
and, therefore, following in his foot
steps, we gladly speak of it today.
But—one further introductory point
—we deal with money best by not '
dealing with it; or, better, we deal
with it indirectly. I do not need to
tell this group that every major prob
lem of life is really a moral problem,
and that every moral problem is final
ly a religious problem. If, for ex
ample, a man is selfish, stingy, filled
with avarice, that is a moral problem
for it effects his family and friends;
but that moral problem is a religious
problem because the whole purpose
and meaning of life is involved. So
this evening we will deal with posses
sions against the background of our
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Faith, which as you know is the truth
about God and man, so that without it
we wander as lost sheep.
Now, the first and fundamental
teaching of the Christian Faith is that
God the Father Almighty is the Crea
tor of heaven and earth. The sea is
His and He made it, and His hands
prepared the dry land. Since God
made this world, it belongs to Him;
and this means that in a final sense
He is the only complete owner. We
little humans hold things for a pass
ing moment; but the things we hold
come from God and return to Him.
We are not owners in an absolute
sense, for, whether we like it or not,
they pass through out fingers. We
are temporary owners, or stewards,
returning all things to the Creator
and owner of this world. So we say
over the bodies of those we bury—
and these words will be said over us,
“The Lord gave; the Lord hath taken
away; blessed be the Name of the
Lord.” The longer I live the more I
am impressed by th« Sovereign Majes
ty of God and the transient littleness
of human life.
The Lord gave; ana, therefore in
His creatures there should be grati
tude —for the Lord gave. There
should be humility; for we are the
receivers of gifts, life, talents, posses
sions. By humility I mean simply
the truth about ourselves—that we
are little creatures whose lives pass
as a watch in the night; that all we
have we have received: that all of us
need forgiveness. But at any rate, we
can see how a thankful heart springs
from this basic teaching, how humili
ty is rooted in the great fact of God.
When we spet.k, thus, of the Crea
tion of the world, of God’s ownership,
we are speaking of the fundamental
fact that undergirds all our lives.
I And if the foundation of a building or
of our lives is false and twisted, how
can anything good be built on a false
foundation? I have grown, I think,
not just to see the majesty of God
but—putting it in another way—l
have come to see the great difference
between God and man. He made us:
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we did not make Him. He gave us
all things: and all that we can give
Him is humble, thankful, responsible
hearts. We give Him His own. He
abides, and does not change above all
the hectic fever of our little lives.
And so we say, “Holy, Holy, Holy,
Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth
are full of Thy glory." We are pil
grims and strangers upon the face of
the earth, having here no abiding city.
We pass through things temporal
with the hope that we may not lose
the things eternal. “We brought noth
ing into this world, and it is certain
we can carry nothing out. The Lord
gave; the Lord hath taken away;
blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Secondly, if this Is the fundamental
fact of life, requiring a fundamental
attitude, it is quite easy to see what
Sin is. lam not talking heie of sins,
with a little “s”, which are wrong
acts: I am talking about Sin with a
big “S”, which is a state, a funda
mental attitude. I am talking of the
central attitude, the state of rebellion
against God, of separation from God,
of the bad foundation which leads to
the cracks in the plaster on the sec
ond floor. I am speaking of human
life going in the wrong direction, even
though—going in the wrong direction
—it may be a good looking life. Sin
with a big “S” is living with our backs
to God, neglect of God, prayerlessness.
If God gave us all things, then Sin is
the ungrateful life. If God is great
and we are little, then Sin is the proud
and arrogant life that will not kneel. J
If God is the Center of all things, |
then Sin is living as if we were the ,
center, which is, of course, what we
all tend to do. Sin is selfishness, even
though it may be the respectable
selfishness of much American life.
Christianity is the truest and most re
alistic approach to life, for it sees—
. with no holds barred—this fundamen
tal sickness and twisting of human
life.
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■ the Great, who once heard a sentimen
. tal speaker tell of how the healthy
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