removed or tunnelled without faith? The bridging of
rivers, the building of railroads, the launching of steamships, and the
creation of all industries are dependent on the faith of somebody. Too
much credit is given both to capital and labour in the current
discussions of to-day. The real credit for most of the things which we
have is due to some human soul which supplied the faith that was the
mainspring of every enterprise. Furthermore in most instances this human
soul owes this germ of faith to some little country church with a white
steeple and old-fashioned furnishings.

The reason I say "old-fashioned" church is because our fathers were more
willing to rely upon the power of faith than many of us to-day. What
they lacked in many other ways was more than compensated by their faith
in God. They got, through faith, "that something" which men to-day are
trying to get through every other means. All the educators, all the
psychologists, all the inspirational writers cannot put into a man the
vision and the will to do things which are gained by a clear faith. Most
of us to-day are frantically trying to invent a machine which will solve
our problems, when all the while we have the machine within us, if we
will only set it going. That machine is the human soul.

The great problem to-day is to develop the human soul, to develop this
wonderful machine which each one of us has between his ears. Only as
this is developed can we solve our other problems. When we give as much
thought to the solution of the human problem as we give to the solution
of the steam problem or the electrical problem, we will have no labour
problem. We have gone daffy over things like steam, electricity,
water-power, buildings, railroads and ships, and we have forgotten the
human soul upon which all of these things depend and from which all of
these things originate.

VI

STUDY THE HUMAN SOUL

The first step is to give more thought and attention to
people, to establish more points of contact. Let us do
humanly, individually, man to man, what we are trying to
do in a great big way.

I was visiting the home of a famous manufacturer recently and he took me
out to his farm. He showed me his cattle. Above the head of each heifer
and each cow was the pedigree. The most careful record was kept of every
animal. He had a blue-print in his library at home of every one of those
animals. Yet when we began later to talk about the labou