self as never
before to convince the youth of the reality of the spiritual life.
Affrighted as the moralists must be by the sudden new emphasis placed
upon wealth, despairing of the older men and women who are already
caught by its rewards, one would say that they would have seized upon
the multitude of young people whose minds are busied with issues which
lie beyond the portals of life, as the only resource which might save
the city from the fate of those who perish through lack of vision.

Yet because this inheritance has not been attached to conduct, the
youth of Jewish birth may have been taught that prophets and statesmen
for three thousand years declared Jehovah to be a God of Justice who
hated oppression and desired righteousness, but there is no real
appeal to his spirit of moral adventure unless he is told that the
most stirring attempts to translate justice into the modern social
order have been inaugurated and carried forward by men of his own
race, and that until he joins in the contemporary manifestations of
that attempt he is recreant to his highest traditions and obligations.

The Christian youth may have been taught that man's heartbreaking
adventure to find justice in the order of the universe moved the God
of Heaven himself to send a Mediator in order that the justice man
craves and the mercy by which alone he can endure his weakness might
be reconciled, but he will not make the doctrine his own until he
reduces it to action and tries to translate the spirit of his Master
into social terms.

The youth who calls himself an "Evolutionist"--it is rather hard to
find a name for this youth, but there are thousands of him and a fine
fellow he often is--has read of that struggle beginning with the
earliest tribal effort to establish just relations between man and
man, but he still needs to be told that after all justice can only be
worked out upon this earth by those who will not tolerate a wrong to
the feeblest member of the community, and that it will become a social
force only in proportion as men steadfastly strive to establish it.

If these young people who are subjected to varied religious
instruction are also stirred to action, or rather, if the instruction
is given validity because it is attached to conduct, then it may be
comparatively easy to bring about certain social reforms so sorely
needed in our industrial cities. We are at times obliged to admit,
however, that both the school and the churc