Grace Audio Treasures

Alas! I slander the beasts when I compare them to such men! Charles Spurgeon (You will find it helpful to LISTEN to the Audio, as you READ the text below.)Romans 6:16, "Don't you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey?"There are many whose great object in life is to get money. But is not the greed for wealth one of the most detestable passions that can possess a human bosom? The ant, which labors for its companions, is to my mind up among the angels--when compared with a man who sweats and toils merely for the sake of heaping up for himself a mass of yellow metal! Can I more highly condemn the lover of pleasure? What is pleasure? It is a hollow sham, a thin veneer of mirth which only covers deep dissatisfaction. I often think when I hear worldlings laughing at their nonsensical amusements, that they pull each other's sleeves and say, "Laugh--you ought to laugh!" I cannot see the gratification which their amusements seem to bring to them. They struggle to appear happy, and what emptin