what they will be; why, then, should we deceive ourselves?"

And our quickened moral sense must be alert not only as regards the wrongdoing of the common offenders, the publicans and sinners of outraged social life, but even more keenly for that wrongdoing which society designates by some more euphemistic name than adultery or theft. If under our government every man has an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is a sin and a crime for privileged interests to interfere with that inalienable right. If the campaign song of the British land reformers, "God made the land for the people," is God's truth for the Lords in Britain, it is equally authoritative in America that God made for the people not only the land, but the minerals deposited in the land, the forests that grow out of the land, the electric energy stored in the water that flows over the land, and the fish that swim and swarm in the seas and lakes that wash the shores of the land. God made all these for the common people of America, and any system of organized monopoly interfering with that divine provision for human needs is an offense for which America shall have to pay, even as Britain has had to pay for the crying injustice of the feudal land laws. And Christianity can do nothing for governments in America more effective than making Christ's principles of political economy and social justice apply justly and in the Christ spirit to the details of everyday life, not

for the vulgar lawbreaker alone, but for men as decent, as highly respected, and as nominally religious as any man among us. Unless a revolution is wrought in the world of the well-to-do and the privileged classes, an issue may be raised by the unprivileged masses which will be no respecter either of persons or of privileges.

(5) The root evil of all this trouble in high classes and in low that threatens governments and endangers democracy itself is the uncured selfishness of men. And there is no cure for selfishness except love. Love alone has the power so to strike the chord of self so that it shall pass in music out of the harp of life. Love alone as the motive in life goes deep enough or is strong enough to turn selfishness into unselfish service. The economists and philosophers all through the ages have declared that self-interest is the supreme and lasting motive in life. It is the radicalism of Jesus that He repudiated the whole self-interest school and declared love to be supreme over all other compelling motives in a moral world. He made service the standard of life and love the motive to service. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself": that is the Christ motive for Christianity and without it neither man nor nation is Christian.

Men of America, unless we hold this Christ view that love is the supreme compelling motive in life our religion is not Christian. Unless we carry that view into actual life in our business relations as employers, as employees, as

public men, as private citizens, what we call our Christianity is not according to Jesus Christ. And unless we can make love to be the motive in the lives of other men, the dominant motive in the industrial world and in the life of the nation, our Christianity will do nothing real for the governments of America.

(6) Into our politics and into our social programs there must come this radicalism of Jesus or there can be no real solution for oppressive trusts on one side or for destructive anarchy on the other. Self-interest is the motive of all that selfishness, and against its self-blindness must be set the distinctive program of Jesus.

The eternal law said: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself." Jesus crammed that law with a deeper meaning and gave it a broader range: "A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another." That is the basis of Christian sociology. That love makes aristocratic injustice impossible.

Jesus said: "If any would be great among you let him be a servant"; and he set that greatness of service over against the Gentile greatness of "lording it" over others. Service is the Christian standard.

Jesus said: "As the Father hath sent me into the world, even so send I you." That commission of all who love in the service of all who suffer is the note and mark without which there is no Christianity.

I know that men will say, and say with the accent of finality, that Christ's ideal cannot be realized in business or in politics, because human nature does not change. But Christ said human nature can be changed. And human nature must be changed or civilization is doomed. "Ye must be born again." The absolute imperativeness of that new birth, the birth out of selfishness into love, out of social strife into social service, is the only hope for the new democracy. "If any man is in Christ he is a new creation." That new creation is the complete vital transformation of all our motives and of all our standards of values. Tolstoi said: "We are willing to do everything for the people except get off their backs." Privileged classes never will be willing to get off the backs of the people until they learn the lesson of love for humanity which sent Jesus to Calvary bearing the people's cross. That new birth of love will solve our age-long problem. Nothing else will solve it.

And the time is come when service to others for love's sake is seen to be not only Christ-like, but also the mightiest thing in life. In June last from a vantage place in Westminster Abbey I looked down upon that matchless ceremonial of pomp and splendor, the coronation of King George. And this was the most regal thing in all that gorgeous ritual: the King's response there in the presence of his people to the significant words of the text of the Archbishop's sermon: "I am among you as he that serveth."

When that spirit comes not to the King alone, but to Parliament, to the army and navy, to the great public corporations, to the vast financial interests that decide issues for the Empire-when that kingly spirit of service comes to all the people the problems of government will solve themselves, and democracy will be justified of her children.

And this is the lesson America must learn. All over this continent men worship the great god Things. Big Things, not great men! Our American Anglo-Saxondom must know that it is set here in the midst of the world nations to bring in the new era of international good-will and international service. In matters of wealth and trade and in the things of the flesh we but compete with other civilizations, but if under the Christ standard of service all government at home is made to work for the freedom and elevation of all the people, and if all diplomacy abroad is made the bond servant of human deliverance from ignorance and error, then shall America take her rightful place in the van of the nations and make her dreams of democracy come true.

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(7) One word more and I have done. this that I have said is but the program of Christianity for governments in America. Back of that program there must be power. There is no power for the redemption of life but the power of a person. The dynamic of Christianity is the living person of Jesus, the Christ. Per