"WHAT LACK I YET?"

ONE cannot square accounts with God on any other basis than complete surrender, whether of the will or of wealth. "What lack I yet?" asked the rich young man who prided himself extravagantly on his moral life. Go, said Jesus, sell your estate and give the proceeds to the needy. We have no evidence that this young Jew got his money in any but an honest method, and if his way to salvation lay along the path of complete surrender what shall those do who derive their riches by corrupting law makers and by defeating justice, and by cornering products and raising the price of food?

I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hands.

Mal. 1:10.

Scanned from Fifty Great Cartoons (Chicago: The Ram's Horn Press, 1899) unpaginated. This cartoon is part of the collections of the The Cartoon Research Library of Ohio State University.