The tree of life, or, Human degeneracy : its nature and remedy, as based on the elevating principle of orthopathy / by Isaac Jennings.

  • Jennings, Isaac, active 1847-1860.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The tree of life, or, Human degeneracy : its nature and remedy, as based on the elevating principle of orthopathy / by Isaac Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    done by the excess of its cost over a plain substantial dress in feeding the hungry and sending the Gospel to the destitute, or for the bestowment of labor for the salvation of souls, then mechanics and farmers, as -well as ministers, lawyers, and doctors, and merchants, should withhold their charitable contributions and missionary labors, until their wives and daughters are alike provided with silk dresses. And so with all other parts and portions of style. The discovery that I had made led me to thorough self-examination. I wanted to know whether I was blocking revival wheels by setting an example to my brethren in other callings, that they could not copy without being so cramped in their financial affairs as to be unfitted for social and religious privileges and duties. I was told that my income would justify my style of living, and that my position in society demanded it. This was not satisfactory to me. I was not my own, but had been bought with a price. My Purchaser, Eedeemer, and kind Master, had given me to understand that unless I forsook all that I had, in the consecration of myself and possessions to his service, I need not reckon myself his disciple. And he had given me a plain, unmistakable example of what I should do to others, in a personal transaction with his disciples, as re- corded in the thirteenth chapter of John. And I felt that it was enough for the disciple that he be as his Master, and the servant as his Lord. I was not indulging in what the popular sentiment would deem extravagance in any respect. Yet I found on careful examination, that I was expending more on myself and family than was necessary for our health and comfort, or than should be meet to answer the demands