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Mammon – Worship

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Mammon – Worship

By: William Rollinson Whittingham
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 “He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand?” Isaiah, xliv. 20. Of some diseases, and those not the least dangerous, it is a distinguishing characteristic, that the aihng fancy themselves in health, and resent, as rudeness and unkindness, an attempt to undeceive them. This is especially observable in the worst family of diseases to which our compound frame is liable, — those that affect the mind. It is proverbial, that insanity cannot know itself, and sees nothing but insanity in the pity and wise counsel that would direct and help it to a cure. While the delusion reigns, its effect is pleasant. Its victim finds real ease and comfort, so long as it lasts, in the falsehood of which he is the dupe. The consumptive patient travels steadily to the grave, flattered every day with the behef that he has made progress toward recovery, and as much consoled by the deceitful imagination as he could be by a real improvement. The madman reigns over the kingdom in his cell with more of the zest of gratified ambition and satiated thirst for power, than the carking anxieties attendant on a crown ever allow its real possessor. We do not deny the reahty of the benefit conferred by the delusion, such as it is. While it lasts, the hope of the dying victim of consumption is pleasant, and the enjoyment of the madman in his fancied kingdom hearty. But do we think their fancies for that reason any the less false infatuations? Does the smile that plays on the thin lips, as they assure us of returning health, seem any the less pitiable, when we think of the brief period within which they must stiffen in the grave, because we know it to be an honest index of the hope within? Does the madman's stately air and elevated tone lessen the commiseration awakened by the contemplation of a man — a being bearing his MAKER'S image —to whom a straw can suffice for a sceptre, and a joint-stool for a throne? Yet how difficult to undeceive the willing subjects of such monstrous, but agreeable deceptions! How hard to deprive them of their cherished hopes! their real enjoyment of their false possessions! How thankless the task, of struggling with them to get at, and lift, the veil which hides from them their true condition, and take away the colored film through which they see health in the symptoms of decay, or dignity in the humiliating concomitants of restraint! In the cases named, there may be thought to be no sufficient motive for undertaking a task so hard and thankless. The life undermined by disease can not be prolonged by the knowledge that it is fast approaching its fixed period. The delusions of insanity may as well prevail as not, if the mind itself be not recovered from its ruin. Christian Living Christianity Devotionals Health
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