The Nevada County picayune., 1922-03-30

and immediately th;S rise ill this line changes and starts it's downward course. And it goes down and down and down until in. not theology, but in cold facts and figures, these makers of statistics find that as a nation, we have forgotten God and gone into wickpdness and lowered our standards of morality in every sense. And this period of defation continues until the voice of the prophets of God is heard and we turn to the God of our fathers. Then the white line appears again and as soon as we begin to see God. pros perity begins to come back to Us as a nation, and it continues again until the same thing happens, until we again forget God and then the conditions change.
 Now. there is only one thing on which I am somewhat lOath to agree with Roger Babson. He tells Us, in recent issues of his studies. that it is his belief that the white line is now appearing again on his chart. and that when we have passed q little farther on. we will find that the nation is now turning to God. 1 wish there were more evidences that that is true, but I believe if ever there was time when | the Children of God. the ministers and the prophets of God should clothe themselves in sackcloth and ashes and seek God as they have never sought him before, that we are living that time now
 These facts that Roger Babson brings cut from wholly different angle are not new to the students of the Scripture. or those who know the l history of the church, either in the Old Dispensation or the New. and fn spite of the apparent prosperity of evil doers, we know that there is no pros perity except that which we find when We are in harmony with our Father when we are living his law.
 do not need to go over present con ditions and point out to you the eyi- dences that lead me to believe that we have not yet reached the bottom of the present depression. I do not see the signs of real turning to God and rem dering our hearts and of our minds. cannot find it as I study conditions today.
 But. brethren. before we turn back toward real happiness, toward real prospcriyt, both the Scriptures and ac- tual facts and figures in history show LIS that we must seek God.
 At the beginning of this meeting I was told by one organization that five thousand of the little pamphlets called The Golden Rule in Business were being sent out by them. I presume that most of you are more or less familiar with the phases of the story in the pamphlet, and I am only going to briefly touch on that phase of this question.
 Most of you, being public speakers. know that a speaker would always rather deal in generalities than espec iallly 10 speak in the first person. but if I am to tell you this story, must tell you most of it in the first person. My hope this afternoon, even with you faithful servants of God, is to send you away from here with a new vision of the work of God in this earth. l know that a great many ministers are really puzzled to know what the church ought to do: what the real work of the church is in the present industrial and economic na- tional and international situation. I know ministers are puzzled and I don't wonder that they are. Many a person has had some kind of a hair-brained idea that he had the solution or the panacea for all our industrial ills, but when he appealed to the church to stand behind it, and they did not seem to be moved, did not seem to be i'm pressed with his ideas, he immedi- ately turned against the church. The fact is that most of the things are theoretical panaeeas and are not prac- tical The only practical solution of our problems is in the teachings of