Rich and Poor: A Visual Contrast

Brian Niece — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:18:13 +0000

What the rich getting richer looks like:

What the poor getting poorer looks like:

Can’t help but think of a Dickens’ quote from A Christmas Carol:

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.

“At this time of the rolling year,” the spectre said, “I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode! Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!”

“Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

It held up its chain at arm’s length, as if that were the cause of all its unavailing grief, and flung it heavily upon the ground again.

Kind of rings true, doesn’t it?

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Bresee Vs. Constantine … Not Even Close

Brian Niece — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:13:37 +0000

A friend who I am working on a project with sent me a Bresee quote in response to one of my recent posts. It’s golden:

“As a result much effort is being made to elegantly house the gathering of the people who are supposed to meet and worship God. Elaborate and expensive buildings are erected, often as a burden and sometimes to the distress of the people; and usually as places of spiritual desolation. That there should be a plain, unostentatious place for the people to gather, where especially the poor and those whom the world despises, should have special opportunities, there is no question. But the eras of nice church buildings have been times of spiritual decline from the days of Constantine and his mother Helena until today.”

–Phineas Bresee, Nazarene Messenger 6/13/1901

Sounds like he’s talking about post-Christian US America, doesn’t it? But check the date … 1901, people! What a visionary he was. And what an inspiration today. The voice of the prophet echoes over 107 years and nails the reason for our spiritual decline.

SO TELL ME SOMETHING:
What does this quote do for you?

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Brian Niece
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