now see good will in control and the Golden Rule in practice.

Working conditions have been vastly improved in this Colorado company by this new plan. Workmen and employers have equal representation on the four joint committees on cooperation and conciliation, safety and accident, sanitation, health and housing, and recreation and education. This last committee, for example, conducts playgrounds, social centers, athletics, moving pictures, field days, holiday sports, libraries, health lectures, technical schools, and cooperates with the Y. M. C. A. and the churches. Does not this look as if the Golden Rule of Jesus were winning its way in business?

"He profits most who serves best." This is the challenging motto of one of the greatest associations of business men, the Advertising Club of America, which has very high ideals. They say frankly in their "creed": "I recognize the fact that the first requisite of success is not to achieve the dollar but to confer a benefit. The reward will come as a matter of course.' "This is a thoroughly Christian principle which comes straight from the words of Jesus:

Whosoever would be first among you shall be servant of all.-Mark 10: 44.

Saint Paul echoes the thought of Jesus in his beautifully just and unselfish statement:

I seek to satisfy all men in all points, aiming not at my own advantage merely, but at the profit of the many.-1 Corinthians 10: 33.

Do you believe that the first requisite of successful business is to serve the public? This idea is taught everywhere by the Rotary Clubs, which enroll the leaders of

all branches of business in our cities. They insist on fairdealing, honest methods, and high trade standards. "To the Rotarian, life is an investment that must yield dividends that are better than dollars, and community prosperity is more than personal profit." Under the leadership of such progressive men with such truly Christian motives, business in America is bound to be redeemed from its selfishness and injustice.

If you are a wage-earner, with some slight share in this great world of business, how can you help to make business Christian? Are you a time-server, jealously watching the clock? Or are you most anxious to do an honest day's work and render your employer full and efficient service? Are you stirring up discontent among your fellow workmen or playing the game and working for the good will of the whole enterprise? Imagine yourself, now and then, in your employer's place, and you will discover countless ways in which you can live the Golden Rule yourself, and thus do your part to redeem business. And who knows? Some day you may fill that employer's place yourself!

POINTS FOR DISCUSSION

1. What experience have you had in business? If you have been a wage-earner, criticise as fairly as you can the different kinds of men you have worked for. Have you found the Golden Rule obeyed in business? In what ways do you think workers are not getting a square deal? In what ways are they not giving their employers fair treatment?

2. Explain what Jesus said about trying to serve both God and Mammon. Why should not religion mix with business? What do you think of that pious grocer who didn't let his religion stop his cheating in trade?

What is a hypocrite? Show how character helps in business. Did you ever know a boy to lose his job because of his bad habits?

3. Show the fallacy in the phrase, "Business is business." What do you think of the pagan ideal that trade requires no conscience? Why would Jesus condemn profiteering? In what ways do you think business has been getting more Christian?

4. Watch your own business habits and motives for a week and ask yourself why you did what you did. Have you been playing the game squarely with your employer? Look sharply to see if you can put the Golden Rule more perfectly into practice in your workaday life.

FOR FURTHER STUDY AND HONOR WORK

5. What do you think of that slogan, "May I not do what I will with mine own?" Explain the danger in it. Write what you think of Jesus' parable of the laborers. 6. In the Christian Century for March 9, 1922, read the splendid article by Sherwood Eddy on "Putting Christianity into Industry." Then write what you think about the progress the Golden Rule is making in business.

7. What do you think of that motto for business men, "He

profits most who serves best"? What did Jesus and Paul say about it? If this principle comes to be widely believed by men in business, what do you think the result will be?

CHAPTER XVIII

THE GOLDEN RULE MUST CONSECRATE

MONEY

In an earlier chapter we found that one of the strongest temptations of youth is the misuse of power. Among the various kinds of power one of the most familiar is money. It is a great force in the world, both for good and evil. A great deal of suffering and social injustice is caused by people whose use of money is not guided by the Golden Rule. Yet one of the miracles of recent history is the great good accomplished in the world by generous folks, both rich and poor, who have combined their gifts to serve the needy.

Our problem of the use of money.-Whether we are students in high school with an allowance given us by our parents, or working boys and girls who have to earn every dollar we save or spend, we all must face this personal problem of the use of money. It is a practical religious problem, for it affects our characters and our future usefulness. Jesus must have felt this way about it, for a surprising amount of his teaching is on this subject.

How is it with you? Have you been envious of young folks who have more spending money. Have you been careful or careless with the money you have to spend? Does a dollar "burn a hole in your pocket"? Or have you the self-control to save and to give to worthy charity parts of your allowance? Do you think that sporty friend of yours "has more money than is good for him"? If so,

why? If you had one hundred dollars a month to spend, just what do you think you would do with it? What good objects would you help?

The duty of thrift.-One of the strangest points in socialism is its claim that thrift is a vice! To accumulate savings is to become a little capitalist; and doubtless one cannot be a good socialist and a capitalist even in a small way! Jesus had no sympathy whatever with this idea. He advocates investments, defends interest and teaches thrift as a necessary virtue. Fluent talkers who claim Jesus was "the first Socialist," never studied the Gospels! He praised the rich Zacchæus for his use of his wealth and never suggested that he give up his property; though for a special reason he did advise the rich young ruler to do this. A number of his friends-Peter, Mark, Lazarus and others-owned houses, and Jesus shared in the comfort of these homes. In his parable of the talents he praises the thrift and energy of the five- and two-talented men who had wisely invested and doubled their capital:

Well done, good and faithful servant! You have proved trustworthy in handling a small sum, now I will put you in charge of a large one. Share your master's happiness.-Matthew 25:23.

But the thriftless man in the story who just hoarded his money instead of investing it, Jesus condemns sharply. He makes the employer in the parable say to him:

You lazy, good-for-nothing servant, you knew, did you, that I reap without sowing and garner without threshing? Then you ought to have deposited my money in some bank, so that when I returned I should get back my capital with interest. Take therefore my twelve hundred dollars from him and give it to him that has twelve thousand dollars.-Matthew 25: 26.