co-operation, and the inter-dependence of all gives true independence to each; where moral progress goes hand in hand with intellectual progress and material progress elevates and enfranchises even the poorest and weakest and lowest. "

"Idle Land and Idle Men: Paupers and Billionaires. " Somewhere there is something wrong.

Helping one to help himself, giving him a chance to work, to be allowed to develop the best in himself, to become self-reliant, is the brotherly act. In the words of Henry Ford: "The very best Charity we know anything about is to help a man to the place where he will never need Charity. In the words of Swedenborg: "The church would be One if all had Charity." Self-reliance and self-respect are essential to co-operation and they are never to be attained without work.

It is a crime to have more than we can use, when men, women and children are suffering, in need and in Ignorance. The once-respected, feared, and loved-rich-man, has come and gone. He is now hated' and rejected by his fellow-man. He is the only monopolistic-extortionist in All Nature. He is man's worst enemy, saying to the masses: "The more you need and the more you buy, the higher my price will go. Give me all you can and I will take all you have." He is not at Peace with himself or his own; it is not safe for him to walk out in God's fresh air and sunshine, to play golf or go unattended to church, without a body-guard. He is even suspicious of this body-guard-living the life of a hunted-hare, in constant

fear.

To give a man a dollar is to weaken his manhood and to show indifference to the welfare of humanity. Money is not a Real-Gift to humanity. Money is a dangerous gift to make, save in cases of suffering and absolute need. It is said, after the Boer War tens of thousands of British soldiers marched hungry thru English cities demanding work and bread and cried: "Damn your Charity! Give us Justice!"

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The Real Man is ashamed to have the burden of unearned money. The time will soon be here when it will be a disgrace for a man to accumulate and hoard worldlypossessions, to die' rich. Bacon said: Money like manure is of very little use, unless it be spread. The wise man respects God's laws. He hoards no treasure here "where moth and rust doth corrupt. The least worthy aspect of all Real Charity is almsgiving, for "Tho I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not Charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And tho I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not Charity, I am nothing. And tho I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and tho I give my body to be burned, and have not Charity, which is Divine- or Universal-Love, it profiteth me nothing.

TRUE CHARITY

"I gave a beggar from my little store

Of well earned gold. He spent the shining ore
And came again, and yet again, still cold

And hungry, as before.

I gave a thought, and through that thought of mine
He found himself the man, supreme, divine!

Fed, clothed, and crowned with blessings manifold,
And now he begs no more.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

The time is fast coming when we will one and all have to face these economic conditions. We-everyone of us, poor and rich, low and high, saint and sinner,-live in an atmosphere of injustice, vice, crime and want. We are all of us better than the system under which we live. From First-Principle all mankind is good. All evils or wrongs committed by any human-being are the result of Ignorance. The Real-Man is never wicked willingly. Who of us would take the Hoe away from our brother and say: "No, you cannot have this hoe to make your living." "Or what man is there of you whom, if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?"

Poverty and misery are not necessary in the evolution

of the race. "Mere philanthropy narrows a man; mere reception of Charity demeans, belittles, pauperizes, and makes the recipient ashamed in the face of his benefactor. No man wants to be a dog, living on fragments from the rich man's table; even tho they are carvings from the haunch and given with heartiest good will. . . . The philanthropist must reach out in brotherly love, otherwise his meat will choke in my throat and corrupt in my stomach; and my Manhood will Starve, while my poor body is being fed.

THE MAN WITH THE HOE
"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,

And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?

Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave

To have dominion over sea and land;

To trace the stars and search the heavens for power;

To feel the passion of Eternity?

Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns

And marked their ways upon the ancient deep?

Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf

There is no shape more terrible than this

More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed-
More filled with signs and portents for the soul-

More fraught with menace to the universe.

What gulfs between him and the seraphim!

Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him

Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?

Through this dread shape the suffering ages look;

Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop;

Through this dread shape humanity betrayed,
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,

Cries protest to the Judges of the World,
A protest that is also prophecy.

JUSTICE-ECONOMICS-BABIES

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,

Is this the handiwork you give to God,

This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this shape;

Touch it again with Immortality;

Give back the upward looking and the light;
Rebuild in it the music and the dream;
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
How will the Future reckon with this Man?
How answer his brute question in that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world?
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings-
With those who shaped him to the thing he is-
When this dumb Terror shall reply to God,
After the silence of the centuries?"

Edwin Markham.

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Ex-Congressman George Curry, formulated his philosophy of life as follows: "What the world needs most is Justice. The higher a people go upward in civilization, the less respect they seem to have for law. Hypocrites are to be found everywhere but they are really more numerous in highly civilized countries than elsewhere. Man in his primal state goes straight at most things. The lust for money is the cause of most law-breaking in the United States and law-breaking can become a National-Habit. The way to get along with people is to be Just, it is the foundation of human society. Even a dog knows when he is badly used." No human being is so degraded as not to possess an innate sense of justice. The humble and enslaved feel it more keenly than the rich, because of their crushed spirits. Human-happiness means Economic-Justice, equality of opportunity, the practice of Universal-Brotherhood-the application of Divine-Ethics as taught by Christ.

In actual life, here and Now, Justice is a Stronger word than Eternity. No department of Divine-Love is greater than Justice, but man-made laws and justice too often fail to clasp hands. "Justice is a Universal human

debt, a Universal Human-Claim." We talk of Peace; how can we have peace without Economic-Justice? "The souls of Emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold -the same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor causes a war betwixt Princes. " Doesn't it seem that Christ, that Lincoln, were full of gentle sympathy, of economic justice and gave their faculties and life to teach. and help the unfortunate?

Economy! ashamed of Economy? Is there a more beautiful lesson in all Nature than her Economy? Nature wastes nothing; she wants nothing; she knows no poverty. It is her Divine-Economy to re-construct the new out of the old, the secret of her transmutation. If we were not blind, we would strive to learn and live her laws, perfecting self-the human family. "Just as Economics lies behind politics, so behind economics lie the characters of the citizens, the power and ability of the men and of the women. You cannot build a happy nation out of ignorant and poverty-stricken men and women. You cannot make a happy state out of men and women who are uneducated and do not understand, because untrained, the conditions amid which they live. Nobility of character, readiness to co-operate, lives led with thot for othersthese are necessary conditions of happiness and prosperity, no matter what economic-conditions you may have, remembering that character lies behind economics, and that unless you build your characters, unless you make your bricks, you can no more build a nation without citizens of character, than you can build a house without brick."

"Yes, but why elaborate on these problems? What do these dark-pictures have to do with having babies?" BABIES! The most serious economic question in the world, and the least and last considered. There is not a thot or subject under the Sun but what is invisibly rooted and connected with having babies, BABIES,-BABIES. In the language of J. Stitt Wilson:

"Economics means not to spill the sugar or peel so many potatoes we can't eat them all in one meal; hang up your clothes, wash your feet, groom your body as you would groom your horse. Economics means a thrifty