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The
preacher
turned
back
each
wide
sleeve
of
his
surplice
with
an
elaborate
large
gesture
and
slowly
surveyed
the
array
of
faces
.
Then
he
said
:
"
For
the
children
of
this
world
are
wiser
in
their
generation
than
the
children
of
light
.
Wherefore
make
unto
yourselves
friends
out
of
the
mammon
of
iniquity
so
that
when
you
die
they
may
receive
you
into
everlasting
dwellings
.
"
Father
Purdon
developed
the
text
with
resonant
assurance
.
It
was
one
of
the
most
difficult
texts
in
all
the
Scriptures
,
he
said
,
to
interpret
properly
.
It
was
a
text
which
might
seem
to
the
casual
observer
at
variance
with
the
lofty
morality
elsewhere
preached
by
Jesus
Christ
.
But
,
he
told
his
hearers
,
the
text
had
seemed
to
him
specially
adapted
for
the
guidance
of
those
whose
lot
it
was
to
lead
the
life
of
the
world
and
who
yet
wished
to
lead
that
life
not
in
the
manner
of
worldlings
.
It
was
a
text
for
business
men
and
professional
men
.
Jesus
Christ
with
His
divine
understanding
of
every
cranny
of
our
human
nature
,
understood
that
all
men
were
not
called
to
the
religious
life
,
that
by
far
the
vast
majority
were
forced
to
live
in
the
world
,
and
,
to
a
certain
extent
,
for
the
world
:
and
in
this
sentence
He
designed
to
give
them
a
word
of
counsel
,
setting
before
them
as
exemplars
in
the
religious
life
those
very
worshippers
of
Mammon
who
were
of
all
men
the
least
solicitous
in
matters
religious
.
He
told
his
hearers
that
he
was
there
that
evening
for
no
terrifying
,
no
extravagant
purpose
;
but
as
a
man
of
the
world
speaking
to
his
fellow-men
He
came
to
speak
to
business
men
and
he
would
speak
to
them
in
a
businesslike
way
.
If
he
might
use
the
metaphor
,
he
said
,
he
was
their
spiritual
accountant
;
and
he
wished
each
and
every
one
of
his
hearers
to
open
his
books
,
the
books
of
his
spiritual
life
,
and
see
if
they
tallied
accurately
with
conscience
.
Jesus
Christ
was
not
a
hard
taskmaster
.
He
understood
our
little
failings
,
understood
the
weakness
of
our
poor
fallen
nature
,
understood
the
temptations
of
this
life
.
We
might
have
had
,
we
all
had
from
time
to
time
,
our
temptations
:
we
might
have
,
we
all
had
,
our
failings
.
But
one
thing
only
,
he
said
,
he
would
ask
of
his
hearers
.
And
that
was
:
to
be
straight
and
manly
with
God
.
If
their
accounts
tallied
in
every
point
to
say
:
"
Well
,
I
have
verified
my
accounts
.
I
find
all
well
.
"
But
if
,
as
might
happen
,
there
were
some
discrepancies
,
to
admit
the
truth
,
to
be
frank
and
say
like
a
man
:
"
Well
,
I
have
looked
into
my
accounts
.
I
find
this
wrong
and
this
wrong
.
But
,
with
God
's
grace
,
I
will
rectify
this
and
this
.
I
will
set
right
my
accounts
.
"
Lily
,
the
caretaker
's
daughter
,
was
literally
run
off
her
feet
.
Hardly
had
she
brought
one
gentleman
into
the
little
pantry
behind
the
office
on
the
ground
floor
and
helped
him
off
with
his
overcoat
than
the
wheezy
hall-door
bell
clanged
again
and
she
had
to
scamper
along
the
bare
hallway
to
let
in
another
guest
.
It
was
well
for
her
she
had
not
to
attend
to
the
ladies
also
.
But
Miss
Kate
and
Miss
Julia
had
thought
of
that
and
had
converted
the
bathroom
upstairs
into
a
ladies
'
dressing-room
.
Miss
Kate
and
Miss
Julia
were
there
,
gossiping
and
laughing
and
fussing
,
walking
after
each
other
to
the
head
of
the
stairs
,
peering
down
over
the
banisters
and
calling
down
to
Lily
to
ask
her
who
had
come
.
