Life of Ahmad — Page 2
THE MIGHTY HOUR as 2 modern life, induced to no small degree by the very enlightenment that has come to the world during recent years, the thought of God has utterly vanished from the minds of multitudes. Of such it would be true to say that "God is not in all their thoughts. " In every age the god of gold has had his faithful devotees. Avarice has always brought a large following to worship at his shrine. But, today, almost all the world bows down in homage. . . Shorn of their veneer of benevolence, however, these great national gambles merely give further indication of the general trend towards the shrine of Mammon. . . Allied to the lure of sweepstakes is the betting evil, ever present, but taking on rapidly-widening dimensions. . . It is the greed of gain, the longing for money without labour, that make dog-racing and horse-racing so popular today. Yet gambling, like Mammon, is a god of sorrow. It has ruined countless homes. Every day it raises false hopes of fortune in thousands of hearts only to dash them pitilessly to the ground. It saps vitality, spoils love for honest toil, and breeds dissatisfaction, discouragement, and despair. Another deity of the modern world is the god of pleasure. . . In most countries today the uppermost thought in the minds of the populace is "sport". The daily conversation of millions is