Few of the success-cult handbooks of that time provided practical business advice, for example, on accounting, advertising, production, or investment. More important was for you to be industrious, frugal, honest, sober, etc. Also, far from being a hindrance, your poverty was your ticket because it forced you to overcome adversity—overcome sin itself—which is how you developed the aforementioned moral character deemed so essential. Such arguments are tautological. God rewards good moral character. Ergo, if you are rich, you are good. Therefore, money is good simply because you have it.
