Luke 15:13. Comp. Matthew 6:24. Since the proper use of wealth is for God, those who do not thus use it are slaves to Mammon. The last verse implies that wealth is not our own, this implies that when it is used as our own, the presumed owner not only does not own it, but himself belongs to it. There is not a word here capable of a communistic interpretation. Our Lord speaks of wealth as ‘that which is least,' modern socialism regards money as the true riches. In principle, practice, and result, the two systems are totally divergent Christianity is the service of God, socialism the service of mammon, judged by its fruits, ‘earthly, sensual' and devilish.

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