Editorial January 26, 1963 Issue

Gaining a Higher Standard of Living

Carl J. Welz

Poverty is not a virtue. An understanding of true substance lifts one above dependence upon material things, but it also improves one's human standard of living.

Christ Jesus warned, "Beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth" (Luke 12:15). The Master taught and demonstrated what a man's life does consist of, and thus he set for us a true standard of living. To him, God alone was substance.

When five thousand people were hungry, he did not ask a blessing on their hunger and promise that it would be rewarded on the other side of the grave. His sense of infinite substance overcame their sense of limitation. With five loaves and two fishes they were all fed, and there were twelve baskets of food left over.

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