"Do not commit
adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor
thy father and thy mother." The young man answered; "All these have I
kept from my youth up." And Billy said: "Yet lackest thou one thing;
sell all that thou hast and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven; and come follow me." And when he heard this
he was very sorrowful, for he was very rich.

--No, I have got the story mixed up. That is what happened in
Palestine. What happened in New York is that Billy said, "I am
delighted to meet you, Mr. Rockefeller." And Mr. Rockefeller said,
"Come be my guest at my palace in the Pocantico Hills; and then we
will go together and you may preach submission to my wage-slaves in
the oil-factories at Bayonne and elsewhere." And Billy went to the
palace, and went and preached to the wage-slaves, telling them to
beware the "stinking Socialists", and to concentrate their attention
on the saving of their souls; so the rich young man was delighted, and
he sent for all the newspaper reporters to come to his office at 26
Broadway, and told them what a great and useful man Billy Sunday is.
As the New York "Times" tells about it:

Mr. Rockefeller seldom gives interviews and certainly he has
never been charged with having an excess of verbally
expressed enthusiasm on any subject. But he talked for an
hour and a half about the evangelist. He was full of the
subject of Billy Sunday. "Billy did New York a lot of good,"
he said. He went on to tell of 187 meetings held in 100
different factories, attended by 50,000 men. "That's good
work." And he expressed his satisfaction with Sunday's
theology: "He believes the Bible from cover to cover and
that is good enough for me." The Sunday campaign had cost
$200,000, and "If it had stopped here, if it was not kept
up, it would be poor business; a poor dividend on the
$200,000 and the work invested. But we expect to get
dividends in the next year."

Again you note the symbolism of the counting-house!

#Rhetorical Black-hanging#

It is the duty of the clergy, not merely to defend large-scale
merchants while they live, but to bury them when they die, and to
place the seal of sanctity upon their careers. Concerning this aspect
of Bootstrap-lifting I quote the opinion of an earnest hater of shams,
William Makepeace Thackeray:

I think the part which pulpits play in the