The greater the possessions, the heavier the responsibility for using them for the glory of God and increasing them by restless effort. Apparently a balanced and well-integrated perspective on finances was seen, not as an impossible ideal, but as realistic and practical, though not likely to be achieved without struggle. While the pursuit of wealth as an end in itself was reprehensible, attaining wealth as a fruit of labor in a calling was a sign of God’s blessing. The remarkable parallels between