# “The ruinous fascinations of Mammon” by John Angell James

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- Published: 2006-11-14T22:43:02-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“What can be sufficient but an intense devotedness on the part of ministers to make
things unseen and eternal bear down the usurping power of things seen and temporal?
Who but the man that knows how to deal with invisible realities, and to wield the
powers of the world to come, can pluck the worldling from the whirlpool of earthly
mindedness, which sucks down so many, or prevent the professing Christian from being
drawn into it? If our own minds are not much impressed with the awful glories and
terrors of eternity, we cannot speak of these things in such a manner as is likely
to rescue our hearers from the ruinous fascinations of Mammon.”

–John Angell James, An Earnest Ministry: The Want of the Times (Edinburgh: Banner
of Truth, 1847/1993), pp. 192-193.

([HT: The Shepherd’s Scrapbook](http://spurgeon.wordpress.com/2006/11/14/earnest-preaching-and-worldliness/))

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