Produced by Irma Spehar, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file made using scans of public domain works at the University of Georgia.) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this | | text. For a complete list, please see the end of this | | document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * USURY A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View BY CALVIN ELLIOTT PUBLISHED BY THE ANTI-USURY LEAGUE MILLERSBURG, OHIO COPYRIGHTED 1902 BY CALVIN ELLIOTT. CONTENTS. Page. Chapter I--Definition 7 Chapter II--The Law by Moses 11 Chapter III--Usury and "The Stranger" 18 Chapter IV--David and Solomon 26 Chapter V--Denunciation of Jeremiah and Ezekiel 30 Chapter VI--Financial Reform by Nehemiah 36 Chapter VII--Teachings of the Master 42 Chapter VIII--Parables of the Talents and the Pounds 52 Chapter IX--Practice of the disciples 58 Chapter X--Church history 69 Chapter XI--Calvin's letter on usury 73 Chapter XII--Permanency of the prohibition 79 Chapter XIII--Our changed conditions 81 Chapter XIV--The American Revision 87 Chapter XV--Duty learned from two sources 93 Chapter XVI--Rights of man over things 97 Chapter XVII--Equal rights of men 102 Chapter XVIII--A false basal principle 108 Chapter XIX--The true ethical principle 115 Chapter XX--Wealth is barren 121 Chapter XXI--Wealth decays 132 Chapter XXII--The debt habit 138 Chapter XXIII--The borrower is servant to the lender 144 Chapter XXIV--Usury enslaves the borrower 146 Chapter XXV--Usury oppresses the poor 154 Chapter XXVI--Usury oppresses the poor--continued 160