The danger and deceitful influence of riches, their tendency to turn our thoughts away from another world, and drown such concern for the soul as providences or preachers may have awakened, in the cup of pleasure, is awfully expressed in the saying of the Lord, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” Dr. Johnson put the point well when, on Garrick showing him his beautiful mansion and grounds. The great man and moralist laid his hand gently on the player’s shoulder, and said, “Ah, David, David, these are the things which make a death-bed terrible!”—GUTHRIE.
