Emphasis Preaching Journal

Perhaps at no time has a society been more self-critical of its lust for affluence as our present generation of Americans. The present decade has been labeled the Age of Greed. The public lost its sympathy for highly salaried professional football players when they went on strike. The union movement in this country has fallen on hard times because the pressure for manufacturers to make more money has forced them to go overseas where the labor is cheaper. States have played on the lust of their citizenry by resorting to lotteries to raise revenues.