The great majority of the human race are a carnally minded race. The development of the spiritual side of their natures is very slight. Their acquisitiveness is large both as individuals, and as a nation. When they are prosperous, they loose their sense of dependence on God, and resort to those practices and that manner of living that will enable them, as they thought, to get the most enjoyment out of their possessions. The future, that is the future after death, do not enter very much into their consideration of existence. They live emphatically for the present.