d in the fundamentals of
prosperity upon which their future depends, we send them to a Sunday
School for a half-hour a week with the possibility of having them taught
by a silly girl who doesn't know her work. In any event the parent
seldom takes the trouble to ascertain the quality of the teaching.

The time is coming when the Church will awake to its great principles
and opportunities. The greatest industry in America is still the most
backward and most inefficiently operated. When these four or five
churches are combined, the preacher will not have to spend half the week
in preparing a different sermon every Sunday. He will have two weeks or
a month to prepare that sermon. He will have time and have the "pep" and
energy to deliver it to you so you won't go to sleep while sitting in
the pews. The audience will then hear the same preacher only once each
month, and the preacher will then have more than one congregation to
appeal to.

The same man is not going to be expected to preach on Love, Hate, the
League of Nations, How to Settle Labour Disputes and the Health of the
Community and every other subject. All of these men will preach the
salvation of Jesus, but each one will specialize in one particular phase
of the Christian life, such as Faith, Integrity, Industry, Cooeperation.
Then we will take more stock in our preachers because they won't pretend
to know every subject. Then the preacher will not be of lesser
intelligence than the average audience.

Fifty years ago the ablest men in every community were the preachers,
the doctors, and the lawyers. They were the only college graduates of
the town and were looked up to. To-day, while we pay our salesmanagers
from $15,000 to $20,000 a year, and lawyers and doctors large fees, we
pay our preachers only miserable salaries. It's a damnable disgrace to
all of us. I often think that if Jesus were to come back to us, that He
would take for His text that thought from the Sermon on the Mount, "If
you have aught against your neighbour, before you enter into your
worship go and square up." I think that when He came in to speak to us
on Sunday morning, He would say:

"Gentlemen, I suggest that before we have this service, we raise funds
to pay the preacher a decent salary."

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Just before I went to Brazil I was the guest of the President of the
Argentine Republic. After lunching one day we sat in his sun parlour
looking out over th