tude of Jesus?

II. _The Church and the People_

1. What motives led Jesus to organize and send out the twelve? What was
the historical significance of that action?

2. When and how did the Church lose its working class character?

3. Does the Church today share Jesus' feelings about the condition of the
people? Sum up evidence for and against.

4. What is the true function of the Church in society so far as the poor
are concerned?

III. _Standing up for the People Today_

1. Is it a superficial or profound test to range a man according to his
sympathy with the common people?

2. What does it involve to stand up for the people today? How does it
differ from charity and relief work?

3. Name some men and women in our own times who seem to have stood up for
them most wisely and effectively.

4. What are the vices of social reformers?

IV. _The Concern of College Men and Women_

1. How can college men and women make a just return for their special
opportunities?

2. What movements in college and university life in recent years are in
line with this social principle of Jesus?

3. What part have the university students of Russia, Austria, Germany, and
England taken in social movements? Have American students ever taken a
similar interest in working class movements? If not, why not?

V. _For Special Discussion_

1. Is it an advantage or disadvantage to Christianity that it began among
the working class? What effects did that have on its ethical points of
view and its impulses?

2. Why did the regeneration of ancient society have to come through the
lowly? Will it have to come the same way today?

3. Is it ethical to live without productive labor? Is it morally tolerable
to enjoy excessive leisure purchased by the excessive toil of others?

4. Is there any clear conviction on this question in the Christian Church
today?

5. Is the fact that a person has sprung from the working-class a guarantee
that he will have the working-class sympathies?

6. Who seem to have more natural democratic feeling, the men or the women
of the upper classes?

PART II. THE SOCIAL IDEAL OF JESUS

Chapter IV. The Kingdom Of God: Its Values

_The Right Social Order is the Highest Good for All_

The first three chapters dealt with simple human principles which are
common and instinctive with all real men. Jesus simply expanded the range
of their application, clarified our comprehension of them, placed them