Covetousness by Lillian Harvey and Edwin Robert Tait

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Covetousness has been termed “The sin very few ever confess.” In fact, that is the subtitle of the book Covetousness, written by Lillian Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers. A few quotes from this book will give you an idea of its main thrust and purpose.
“The sin of the whole world is essentially the sin of Judas—men do not disbelieve their Christ; but they will sell Him.”
—Ruskin
“If money be not thy servant it will become thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth as it may be said to possess him.”—Charcon.
“It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of Heaven, but the fact that the riches have him.”
—David Caird


“Let us make our giving in accordance with our earnings, lest God make our earnings in accordance with our giving.”
—Peter Marshall.
“I love poverty because Jesus Christ loved it. I love wealth because it gives me the means of assisting the wretched.
—Pascal.
“Let me hold lightly things of this earth;
Transient treasures, what are they worth?
Moths can corrupt them, rust can decay,
All their bright beauty fades in a day.
Let me hold lightly temporal things—
I, who am deathless, I, who wear wings!
Let me hold fast, Lord, things of the skies;
Quicken my vision, open my eyes!
Show me Thy riches, glory and grace,
Boundless as time is, endless as space…
Let me hold lightly things that are mine—
Lord, Thou dost give me all that is Thine!”
—Martha Snell Nicholson

Covetousness is now available in Harvey Christian Publishers’ Online Christian Bookstore.

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The Call Back Series—Illness, Martha Snell Nicholson

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Martha Snell Nicholson.
Martha Snell Nicholson has blessed many by her devotional poems.She was in invalid for three and a half decades and wrote many of her poems from her bed. In Illness, the first book in the “Call Back Series,” Martha calls back to us through her pain, encouraging us that we are never alone in our sufferings, no matter how severe they may be.


Crippling arthritis, threatened cancer, TB, Parkinson’s disease, seven major surgeries and many minor ones—Martha experienced all this and more and yet she could write:
“Each day must be lived as though it were to be my last, and there is so much to be done, to purify myself, and to set my house in order. I am on tiptoe with expectancy. There are no more gray days for they are all touched with color. No more dark days for the radiance of His coming is on the horizon—no more dull days with glory just around the corner—and no more lonely days, with His footsteps ever coming nearer, and the thought that soon, soon I shall see His blessed face, and be forever through with pain and tears!”
—Used by permission of Wesleyan Advocate.

The Hand which flung the stars through space
Holds fast my hand.
My life is molded by the One
Who shaped the land.
The Mind which planned the march of suns
Can understand
The petty trials of my day;
And surely He
Who hollowed out the cup that holds
The mighty sea,
And keeps the waves in check, can give
Tranquility
In my small storms. Shall not the One
Who holds in place
The Milky Way, keep me each day
And by His grace
Present me perfect, faultless there
Before His face.
—Martha Snell Nicholson. (Illness, p. 32)

Illness from which these quotations are taken is written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers. It is now available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

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