Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-02

instead of the pastor being the
head of the church and a few god
people doing voluntary work, there
will be four or five churches OF aae
denomination united under une
general manager. The church IS
will then be self-supporting The
days of begging will be over. W hen
these four or five churches are
combined, the preacher will not
have TO spend half the week pre-
pairing a different sermon for
every Sunday. He will have two
weeks or month TO prepare that
sermon. He will have time and
pep and energy to deliver 1t so
you won't sit back in your pews.
The audience will then hear the
came preacher only once each
month and the preacher will then
have more than one congregation
to appeal to-"
These are Some of the religious
industrial high lights which Mr..
Babson stresses.
To-day, while we pay our sales
managers from $4,000 to $40, 900 a
year, and lawyers and doctors large
fees, we pay our preachers only
miserable salaries. 1t is damn
able disgrace TO all of us. ! often
think if Jesus were to come back TO
us, that He would take for His
text that portion from the Sermon
on the Mount which reads; If
therefore thou are offering thy gift
at the altar first be recon-
ciled to thy brother, and then
come and offer thy gift think
that when He came to speak to us
on Sunday morning, He would say:
Gentlemen, I would suggest that
before we have this service we
raise funds to pay the preacher a
decent salary
More Religion Needed.
"The need of the hour is not
more legislation. The need of the
hour is more religion. More re-
ligion is needed everywhere, from
the halls of congress to the fac
tories, mines, fields and forests.
1t is one thing to talk about plans
or policies, but a plan or policy
without a religious motive is like
a watch without n spring or a body
without the breath of life.
II have referred to the fact that
the security of our investments is
dependent upon the
faith, the righteousness and the re-
ligion of other people. l now go
further than that and say that the
tiles? De lowe them to religion.
whole is due to this something
this indescribable something this
of faith, thrift, indus
try. initiative, integrity and vision
which these preachers have de-
in their communities"
After stating that thirty OF
seventy captains Of American in
dustry whom he had studied were
the sons of poor farmers and
preachers, Mr.. Babson says: sta
tistics indicate that very seldom
does a child, brought up in a city
apartment house amount to much;
while children of well-to-do city
people are seriously handicapped.
Statistics show that the great
est undeveloped resources in Amer
lea are not our mines, our forests
or our streams, but rather the
human souls of the men and wom-
en- who work for us, The great
problem of today is to develop the
human soul, to develop this Won
derful machine which each one of
US has.
Prosperity and Family Prayers.
Much of the prosperity of this
nation is due to the family prayers
which were once held in the homes
of our fathers. To a very large |
extent, this custom has gone by. |
The custom >of family prayers
should be revived along with many |
other good New England Unitarian
customs which some modern radi-
Gals may ridicule, but to which |
they owe all that they possess.
1.-The success of individuals, the !
success of communities, the sue
cess of nations depend upon these |
undamentals-inte faith, in
dustry, brotherly kindness and in
terest in the soul of man. To what |
10 we owe these fundamental quail |
ties? We awe them to religion. |
To religion we owe our civilization |
and to the church we owe our re-
igion. 1t is evident that the peo-
pie of America have not the bank
srs to thank for their security and |
but rather the preach |
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