her of them is interested in the
Church, the most important organization in America. It is the Church
which has created America, which has developed our schools, which has
created our homes, which has built our cities, which has developed our
industries, which has made our hospitals, charities, and which has done
everything that is worth while in America.

Yet to-day, the Church is the most discarded industry of all, because it
has not the cooeperation of either of the above groups,--the radical
group which claims to be interested only in humanity and not in
property, and the propertied group which frankly says that it is
primarily interested in property and not humanity. It seems that we
should stop side-stepping this question. Instead we should face it
squarely and answer both of these criticisms. My answer is as follows:

Jesus was not interested in property, _per se_. There is no question but
that Jesus had no interest in property. These things which look so
important to us,--houses, roads, taxation, buildings, fields, crops,
foreign trade, ships,--it is very evident were insignificant to Jesus.
When any of Jesus' disciples came to Him to settle some property
question, He pushed them aside and said He was too busy to consider it.
I am sure that if Jesus were here to-day, He would tell us all that we
are idiots for striving so to accumulate things--building ourselves
bigger houses, getting bigger bank accounts and more automobiles. Hence,
when the socialist or the radical or the labour leader complains to me,
I frankly admit this fact. Without doubt the Church should emphasize
that property _of itself_ is of no value, and the only things worth
while in life are happiness and the health and the freedom which come
from living an upright, simple life.

On the other hand, and this point I wish to emphasize just as strongly,
Jesus took the position throughout His teachings, that if His disciples
would simply get saturated with His fundamentals, if they would be clean
and upright, if they would cooeperate with one another, if they would
have faith to serve and trust the Almighty for the results, they would
never have to worry about property. Property would take care of itself.
Jesus emphasized, first, that they should not think of property; but He
always closed His discourses by some such statement as this: "If you
will do these things, all of the others will be given to you."

It is absolutely impossible for any indivi