m far away from a kingdom of love. "As the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your
thoughts."

IV

Here, then, we have another social principle of Jesus. A collective moral
ideal is a necessity for the individual and the race. Every man must have
a conscious determination to help in his own place to work out a righteous
social order for and with God. The race must increasingly turn its own
evolution into a conscious process. It owes that duty to itself and to God
who seeks an habitation in it. It must seek to realize its divine destiny.
"Thy kingdom come! Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven!"
This is the conscious evolutionary program of Jesus. It combines religion,
social science, and ethical action in a perfect synthesis.

What has this to say to students? Everything, it seems.

First, whatever is to be our particular job, we must relate it to the
supreme common task at which God and all good men are working. Unless we
see and assert that relation, we are mere day-laborers or slaves, with
neither intelligence nor enthusiasm.

Second, anyone who, instead of loyally relating his life-work to God's
work, pursues his own ambition at the expense of the Kingdom and damages
it to make profit for himself, is like a man who takes pay to damage his
country. He makes the work harder for all who are more faithful than he,
and their blood will be upon him.

Third, "_noblesse oblige_." If we belong to the republic of learning and
education, something extra is justly due from us. Here, for instance, is
the evangelization of the world in this generation. An organization has
been created to accomplish it. Heroic pioneers have died, preparing the
way for larger forces. Is our life fit and good enough to put into that?
Here is the Christianization of the social order in the next two
generations. What have all our social studies been for in the design of
God? To fit ourselves for exploiting our fellows or to show them the way
to the Kingdom of God?

Suggestions for Thought and Discussion

I. _Our Untapped Reserves_

1. How far is a person who produces nothing, of use to the community? Is
increase of productive efficiency the test of progress?

2. Does religion help to call out reserves of energy in human nature?

II. _The Energy of Jesus_

1. How far did Jesus give evidence of audacity and high power energy? Has
the Christian Church realized