Moreover, from a worldly point of view, there is no mistake
so great as that of being always right." He then turned to his class and
said--
"And now tell me what did the Sunchild tell us about God and Mammon?"
The head-boy answered: "He said that we must serve both, for no man can
serve God well and truly who does not serve Mammon a little also; and no
man can serve Mammon effectually unless he serve God largely at the same
time."
"What were his words?"
"He said, 'Cursed be they that say, "Thou shalt not serve God and Mammon,
for it is the whole duty of man to know how to adjust the conflicting
claims of these two deities."'"
Here my father interposed. "I knew the Sunchild; and I more than once
heard him speak of God and Mammon. He never varied the form of the words
he used, which were to the effect that a man must serve either God or
Mammon, but that he could not serve both."
"Ah!" said Mr. Turvey, "that no doubt was his exoteric teaching, but
Professors Hanky and Panky have assured me most solemnly that his
esoteric teaching was as I have given it. By the way, these gentlemen
are both, I understand, at Sunch'ston, and I think it quite likely that I
shall have a visit from them this afternoon. If you do not know them I
should have great pleasure in introducing you to them; I was at
Bridgeford with both of them.
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