Evening star., 1921-09-03

(This Is the eleventh OF n series OF aIti-
cles by Mr.. BabsOn TO be published IN Ihe
Star. The twelfth will appear in next
saturdays Business Secton-)
ryo captains OF industry were
standing one day on the bridge at
Niagara Falls. looking at the great
falls. One man turned to the other
and said. Behold the greatest source
Of undeveloped power in America"
mo. The greatest source of unde-
voloDed power in America is the soul
OF man." the other replied.
was talking with large manu-
facturer the other day and he told me
that he was supporting scholarships
in four universities to enable young
men to study the raw materials which
he is using in his plant. 1 asked him
if he was supporting any scholarships
to study the human ~. element in his
asked for definite figures. it appeared
that 80 per cent of every dollar which
he spends goes for labor and only 20
per cent goes for materials. He is
endowing four scholarships to study
the 20 per cent and is not doing a
thing to study the so per cent! Sta
tistics show that the greatest unde-
veloped resources in America are not
our mines or our forests OR our
! streams. but rather the human souls
49,
US.
Jesus Farsightedness.
Jesus was absolutely right in His
contention that, if we would seek first
the kingdom of God and His right
eousness. all these other things would
naturally come to u.s.. This is what
Jesus had in mind when He urged
that such giving and serving should
be returned to them hundredfold or
more. Jesus never preached unselfish-
ness or talked sacrifice as such. but
only urged His hearers to look
through to the end. see what the final
result would be and do what would be
best for them in the long run. Jesus
urged His followers to consider the
spiritual things rather than the ma
terial and the eternal things rather
spirit Of sacrifice. The only sacrifice
which Jesus asked of His people was
the same sacrifice which the farmer
makes when he throws his seed into
the soil.
The story of the Ioaves and fishes
is still taught as miracle. but the
day will come when it will not be
considered SUCH The same is true re-
Earding the incident when Jesus
found that His disciples had been
fishing all night without results. and
He suggested that they cast the net
on the other side. They followed His
advice. and the net Immediately filled
with so many fishes that they could
hardly pull it up. If we today would
give more thought to the spirtunl
and less to the material we would
have more in health. happiness and
prosperity. The business men today
would be far better off if-Iike the
fishermen of Galiiee-we would take
Jesus advice and cast our net on the
other side"
Faith Has Removed Mountains.
We are told that with sufficient
faith we could remove mountains
Have mountains ever been removed
or tunneled without faith? The
bridging of rivers. the building of
railroads. the launching of steam
ships and the creation Of all indus
tries are dependent on the faith of
somebody. Too much credit is given
both to capital and labor in the cur
rent discussions of today. The real
we have is due to some human soul
handspring of every enterprise. Fur
human soul owes this germ of faith
to some little country church with
white steeple and old-fashioned fur
nishings.
The reason I say "old- fashioned"
church is because our fathers were
more willing to rely upon the power
of faith than many of US today. What
they lacked in many other ways was
more than compensated by their
. faith in God. They got. through
4aifh "fbat Somethiue' which men