g. The
Pittsburgh mill owner has no other unity by which he can find himself at
one with his foreign born mill-hand, than the fact that he and the
mill-hand are fellow workers in the mill.

What other bond of union is there between the farm landlord and the farm
tenant? They have no common idealism. The one reads books, the other
does not. The one sends his son to college, the other sends his into the
stable and the field. The one is enjoying a life of leisure and his
hands are clean; the other sweats, saves, and produces, in soiled
clothing, and with hard, coarse hands. They have only one basis of
unity, namely, that they co-operate in tilling the soil, and in the
producing of food and raw materials. The teacher, or preacher, who
attempts in this case to escape the economic unity, will find no other.

The trouble with most of the ideals which express themselves in
diversified worship, is that they are peculiar to the life of leisure,
they are a part of "the leisure class standard." Many teachers and
preachers reiterate similar demands which can only be responded to by
people who do not have to work.

From this leisure class standard our ideals must be changed to the
standard of work, and the man who has vision is he who shall see the
economic, the industrial unities, and who with compelling voice, will
call men together to worship in a new consciousness of kind.

Ministers in the country are feeling this very deeply. The pastor who
ministers to a whole community, boasts of it. He realizes he is serving
a true social unit. This is the joy of many country churches which might
be named, and the lack of it is the blight of many other country
communities. It must be clearly born in mind, however, that the church
can not organize a unity that is apart from the life of men. Religion
is the expression of social realities. There can be no "federation" of
those who are not conscious of their likeness and of their resemblances.
This means that the religious teaching of days to come must be a
teaching of the real unities of mankind. For in these true bonds of
union men are brought together. The efforts to assemble them in
artificial bonds, however ideal, will be futile.

FOOTNOTE:

[Footnote 35: "Descriptive and Historical Sociology," by Prof. Franklin
H. Giddings, p. 275.]

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States,
Chas. R. Van Hise,