Well...being rich is relative. We obviously can all afford the internet. Most third world country folks think you and I are rich. I won't fault people who drive Escalades and have luxury homes. They worked hard and are paying taxes. It's the consumerism that is causing debt that I have begun to frown upon because people tend to judge their own financial situation by the "Joneses" who live up the hill. Whatever income we have or build, we should always live on less than we earn so that we can build our own levels of wealth and prosperity.
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"No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done" (History of the Church, 4:540).
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