Arizona republican., 1920-08-07

individual to develop the fundamentals of prosperity-faith, industry. integ rity and brotherly kindness-without being successful"
 s.The fact is, have never made any money investing in stocks or bonds. What money I have made has come from investing in boys and girls; l young men and young women" Applying Business to Churches Twenty five years from today. in stead of the pastor being the head of | the church and a few good people do l ing voluntary work, there will be four or five churches of one denomination united under one general manager The churches will then be sef-support- 1 ing The days of begging will be over. | When these four or five churches are combined the preacher will not have l to spend half the week preparing a different sermon for every Sunday. He will have two weeks or month to pre- pare that sermon. He will have time and pep and energy to deliver it so you won't sit back in your pews The audience win then hear the same l preacher only once each month, and 1 the preacher will then have more than one congregation to appeal to-" These are some of the religious-in- dustrial high lights which MT. Bab- son stresses:
 Today, while we pay our sales tAAe1iic6GIS 1IOlu F19,UOu to SZD,UUU d year. and lawyers and doctors large fees, we pay our preachers only miser- able salaries. It is damnable dis grace to all of us. I often think if Jesus were to come to us, that He would take for. His text that portion from the Sermon on the Mount which reads: If therefore thou art offer ing thy gift at the altar first be reconciled to thy brother. and then come and offer thy gift I think that when He came to speak to us on Sun day morning He would say: Gentle men, l would suggest that before we have this service we raise funds to pay the preacher decent salary
 "The power of our spiritual forces | has not yet been tapped
 Need of Hour More Reliqion
 The need of the hour is not more Legislation. The need of the hour is more religion. More religion is needed everywhere, from the halls of congress to the factories, mines, fields and for ests. It is one thing to talk about plans Or policies, but a plan or policy with out a religious motive is like a watch without a spring or body without the l breath of life.
 I 1T have referred to the fact that the security of our Investments is abso- lutely dependent upon the faith, the righteousness and the religion of other people. I now go further than that
 
 country as a whole is due to this something this indescribable some . thing this combination of faith, thrift industry. initiative. integrity and vison ca these preachers have de- veloped T their communities.''
 After stating that 30 of 70 captains of American industry whom he had studied were the sons of poor farmers and preachers, Mir. Babson says: Sta tistics indicate that very seldom does child brought up in a city apartment house amount to much; while children of we'll to-do city people are seriously handicapped.
 Human Souls Greatest Asset
 Statistics show that the greatest undeveloped resources in America are not our mines, our forests or ou1 streams, but rather the human souls ol the men and women who work for us The great problem of today is to de velop the human soul, to develop this wonderful machine which each one C. us has.
 Much of the prosperity of this na- tion is due to the family prayers whicf were once held in the homes of oul fathers. To a very large extent thi. custom has gone by. The custom O family prayers should be revived alons with many other good New England Unitarian customs which some mod ern radicals may ridicule. but to whicl they owe all that they possess
 The success of individuals, the sue cess of communities, the success O nations depend upon these fundamen tals-integrity, faith, industry, broth erly kindness and interest in the sou of man. To what do we owe thest fundamental qualities? We owe then to religion. To religion we owe ou civilization and to the church we ow, our religion. +t is evident that tn people of America have not the bank CTS to thank for their security an, prosperity, but rather the preacher and the churches