...soon be lost ; and if ever the essential parts should evaporate, what remains will be dung and dross. I fear, wherever riches have increased, the essence...of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see hpw it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion...

...soon be lost ; and if ever the essential parts should evaporate, what remains will be dung and dross. I fear, wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion Therefore I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion...

...lost ; and if ever the essential parts should evaporate, what remains will be dung and dross. I tear, wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion...

...heart and life, and if ever these essential parts shall evaporate, what remains will be dung and dross. I fear wherever riches have increased the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion ; for as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world." The only safeguard against...

...God, and purchased for himself hellfire." He groaned in spirit and was troubled over the economical results of a revival of religion. Godliness, having...circle. How could he escape? " What way, then, can we<take, that our money may not sink us to the nethermost hell ? " His only suggestion — a refuge...

...here, and that their understanding of them was throughout along precisely the lines suggested here.2 Wesley wrote, 'I fear, wherever riches have increased,...of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion...

...their neighbors'. John Wesley, speaking of English society, put his finger on the problem when he said: I fear, wherever riches have increased, the essence...of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore 1 do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion...

...failure so much as success. John Wesley, the founder of English Methodism, stated the paradox perfectly: I fear, wherever riches have increased, the essence...of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion...

...this lower-middle class group; Weber illustrated this point by quoting Wesley's famous statement that 'wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion' .* The other major reason for the puritanism of this stratum lay according to Weber in its elimination...

...wealth — which had, then, the effect of making them less spiritually alive. "I fear," he wrote, that wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion...