If you receive an e-mail about Adrian Rogers saying; “Look what this guy had to say as far back as 1931”, then I suggest that you prostrate yourself in praise of God or whatever Deity is your flavour of the day.
Why?
Because Adrian Rogers was born on 12 September 1931 and died on 15 November 2005
BUT, the e-mail is kinda true in that the quotation is in fact from Dr Adrian Rogers and forms part of a longer sermon by Dr. Rogers’ from 1984 in a larger series titled “God’s Way to Health, Wealth and Wisdom” and also appears as a passage in Dr. Rogers’ 1996 work, “Ten Secrets for a Successful Family” in which he complains that “by and large our young people do not know either the importance or the value of honest labor”.
So, be warned that the e-mail below only contains elements of truth:
Look what this guy had to say as far back as 1931
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it”
Dr Adrian Rogers, 1931
