lity or standing, or show that it does not so value them.

2. Is the tendency in modern life toward a lower or higher valuation of
the individual? To what extent is this due to the influence of
Christianity?

3. How do the statistics of industrial accidents agree with our Christian
valuation of life?

IV. _The Test of History_

1. What widespread and successful movements for social justice have there
been outside the territory influenced by Christianity?

2. How do modern missions serve as an experiment station for the problem
of this chapter?

3. What connection was there between the Wesleyan revival and the rise of
the trade union movement in England?

V. _For Special Discussion_

1. Do permanent class differences necessarily result in a slighter social
feeling for the inferior class?

2. Describe the class lines drawn in your home town.

3. Did you feel these lines more or less when you entered college?

4. Does college life tend to make us callous or sympathetic?

5. Does life in social settlements seem to increase or decrease respect
for human nature in college men and women?

6. How would you preserve your self-respect if you were a working man
placed in degrading labor conditions?

7. Does an honor system build up self-respect?

8. Have your scientific studies, and especially evolutionary teachings,
increased your regard for humanity in the mass?

9. According to your observation, does religion make a man a stronger or
weaker personality?

Chapter II. The Solidarity Of The Human Family

Every man has worth and sacredness as a man. We fixed on that as the
simplest and most fundamental social principle of Jesus. The second
question is, What relation do men bear to each other?

DAILY READINGS

First Day: The Social Impulse and the Law of Christ

And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, trying him:
Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? And he said
unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the great and
first commandment. And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments the whole
law hangeth, and the prophets.--Matt. 22:35-40.

Which among the multitudinous prescriptions of the Jewish law ought to
take precedence of the rest? It was a fine academic question for church
lawyers to discuss. Jesus passed