The
apostle to the Gentiles, writing to Timothy of those things which should be absent from the character of a bishop of the church, enumerated amongst them the love of filthy lucre.
When
the skeptic is desirous of justifying his skepticism, he turns quite commonly to the Old Testament, and from its pages he has no difficulty in producing some story so extremely unethical as, in his opinion, to justify all the animadversion he may be capable of.
EARTH
is so often thought of as matter, as a type of gross materiality, that some may have lost sight of the fact that there must be the true idea of earth as well as of anything else.