To those who have greater riches than one thousand dollars for each individual of their family, is to be said, that they are only administrators of that property to make the poor rich and the rich truly happy.  And whereas the Peace Union undertakes this great work, a rich person should be instructed and enlightened, that this will not take place in any other way than by a true community, for which we have given this sketch, only in this point deviating from the course which we would pursue if we would have to deal with perfect persons, that we found proper to concede, that if any body should leave the Peace-Union settlement, he should receive in due time the sum invested not exceeding one thousand dollars.  But those whose property reaches higher, will go the safest way according to Christ’s direction:  “Go thy way, sell whatever thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven; and come and take up thy cross and follow me.”  Mark x:  21.  This man to whom Christ gave that advice “had great possessions.”  And we give to those who have great riches the same advice, but with a different application.  Jesus Christ, the Father of the New Era which is to be introduced by our mission, had not the chance in Palestine, which we have in the United States.  He advised as he could in his circumstances, and we give in our circumstances to the rich who have great possessions the following advice and the best for them to be saved:  “Give as a donation as much into our Peace-Union centre as you are able to do for raising our institutions as the best means for the redemption of the poor and degraded people from the existing misery and distress, and come and learn how to administer your possessions for the poor, and we will send with you to your possessions[AB] a man to commence there with you a community for the poor only, and you may call poor people of your choice together.  And you should superintend, and our administrator should assist you and labor with you to educate the poor so as to make them truly rich and happy.  And you, while you would have enriched our centre as much as would be possible without selling your possessions, would be the presiding elder at the community of the poor made rich by your possessions, and when you would be pleased to stop with those in the centre, you would be received as one of the founders, and you would have treasure in Heaven.”

What I say to one I say to all rich men and women.  If they receive our advice they will become very rich and happy; but now they are “wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,” Revelation iii:  17.  They are the Heads in Laodicea, which means the judgment of the people, whom they are preparing for destruction, and for themselves the hell.  Luke xvi:  23.  From them is more required to be saved than from those who have only a small property in comparison with the great possessions of the rich, and their small property they have earned with hard labor.  But it would be too troublesome to reckon, how they had acquired their riches.  But instead of a long reckoning or a general confession of their sins and crimes we show them the shortest and surest way to Heaven.