Worldlings

There are those who toil from early morn till dewy eve to earn the necessities of life— who are goaded to effort by the pressure of need—whose highest care is to solve the question, "What shall I eat, what shall I drink, and wherewith shall I be clothed?" and who entirely ignore tho wants of the soul; whose whole life has reference to the animal, and in whom the higher nature lies undeveloped. All they do has relation simply to time, and the eternity approaching is forgotten. They are content to live godless, prayerless, and hopeless. To them religion is a hissing and a reproach, while the world is as Paradise.— Anon