the market compatible with a fraternal
conception of society?

4. Would a successful socialist organization create a stronger sense of
solidarity or would divisive interests get in by new ways?

5. Which has the better inducements to loyalty, a college, or a trade
union? Which has more of it?

6. How does the team spirit go wrong among students?

Chapter III. Standing With The People

We have found two simple and axiomatic social principles in the
fundamental convictions of Jesus: The sacredness of life and personality,
and the spiritual solidarity of men. Now confront a mind mastered by these
convictions with the actual conditions of society, with the contempt for
life and the denial of social obligation existing, and how will he react?
How will he see the duty of the strong, and his own duty?

DAILY READINGS

First Day: The Social Platform of Jesus

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and he
entered, as his custom was, into the synagogue on the sabbath day,
and stood up to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of
the prophet Isaiah. And he opened the book, and found the place
where it was written,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor:
He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives,
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised,
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat
down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
And he began to say unto them, To-day hath this scripture been
fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered at
the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth: and they
said, Is not this Joseph's son?--Luke 4:16-22.

Luke evidently felt that this appearance of Jesus in the synagogue of his
home city at the outset of his public work was a significant occasion. The
passage from Isaiah (61:1f) was doubtless one of the favorite quotations
of Jesus. He saw his own aims summarized in it and he now announced it as
his program. Its promises were now about to be realized. What were they?
Glad tidings for the poor, release for the imprisoned, sight for the
blind, freedom for the oppressed, and a "year of Jehovah." If this was an
allusion to the year of Jubilee (Lev. 25), it involved a revolu