Emphasis Preaching Journal

What will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his soul. Asquith, the British Prime Minister during part of World War I, was described as one who lost his power by high living. Asquith "was a strong character, unshakable as a rock and like a rock, incapable of movement. His initiative, if he ever had any, was sapped by good living in high society."*

-- A. J. P. Taylor, English History, 1914-1945.