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application in practice in his daily life, contributes
more materially to the process of putting mioral
principles and religion out of business than the ossi
fied materialist.
Do to others that which you earnestly desire
others should do to you, is an ancient maxim that
has proven through all history the soundness of
religion applied to business.
Think as much of your customers’ well-being as
you do of your own gain, may be a modem way of
putting the ancient admonition: “Love thy neighbor
as thy self,” but it is a sound principle and works
perfectly, even today, in the interest of the man who
is old-fashioned enough to believe that honesty is the
best policy.
The American businessman, head of a commercial
institution where younger men and women are em
ployed and in training, should be careful lest his ques
tionable business methods demoralize his office assis
tants who are forced to execute his orders and carry
out the details of a morally wrong and legally unlaw
ful transaction.
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The tendency of the present day to rely on materi
al and superficial education to adjust and attune the
mind to right thinking and right living may be sus
tained in theory, but the results are nothing short of
a repudiation.
The material genius of our age has everything in
his favor. His acclaim is amply justifiable. He has
transformed the universe. He has almost become a
master of the elements in nature. But in his assent
he has largely lost his spiritual contact. He has be
come a matter of fact individual. His achievements
have served the purpose of explaining away the divine
influence in nature, both animate and inanimate.
And the beneficiaries of his marvelous achieve
ments, the generations of the present day, have laid
away the old plans. The spiritual instinct has been
suppressed. The mind has become a machine attached
to material motive power. The contact with the
spiritual has been switched off, the soul has been shut
in and denied its supernatural touch.
The simplified scheme of life, everything reduced
to the confines of human reasoning, has left us minus
something, which in turn has given us much to worry
about. The carefully developed and materially edu
cated mind has a tendency to falter, with the result
that the possessor, here, there and everywhere, with
out warning plunges into an abysmal depth of iniquity
and plain crime and perversion which brings dis
aster, ruin and disgrace upon family names with an
illustrious and honorable background.
Every day the story is told of men and women of
high station, enjoying the esteem and confidence of
wide circles, who have practiced deception and fraud,
robbed their fellows, ruined virtue and character and
sent trusting friends hellbound, diseased in mind and
body.
No material philosophy can be advanced with a
sufficient margin of logic to fully satisfy the thinking
sociologist regarding the causes to these disquieting
occurrences.
From the innermost recesses of the materialized
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conscience comes a faint cry of anguish. The soul in
its state of confinement is pleading faintly for the
sunlight of spirituality.
Men and women in all walks of life are gradually
beginning to awaken and listen to the spiritual voice
that is calling, and the pleas for a renewal of spiritual
contact is increasing in volume.
More religion in the home is the cry from every
where. The helplessness of parents without religious
training is creating another angle of despair. Many
people are calling for religion in the school, believing
it essential that religious instruction be made a part
of America’s future child training.
Simmered down, these currents of thought have
originated out of the failures produced through edu
cation stripped of all spiritual influence.
The perpetuity of the race is also considered an
interlocking element of thought. Even the pages of
history sustain this contention. Nations without
spiritual shrines have recorded little of enduring value
in their favor. Their days have been few. Though
they have left their imprint upon the shores of time
they have passed out altogether too quickly.
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While spiritual currents of thought may become
fused with public education of the future in such a
way that the incursion of religious intolerence shall
be eliminated, serious attention must be given the pres
ent generation if we are to remedy the weaknesses
that have developed and check the irrational emotion-
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