think or
see beyond the end of his day. It was lack of faith which stood between
them and prosperity. Hence, the second great fundamental of prosperity
is that intangible "something,"--known as faith, vision, hope, whatever
you may call it.

The writer of the Book of Proverbs says: "Where there is no vision, the
people perish." Statistics teach that where there is no vision,
civilization never gets started! The tangible things which we prize so
highly,--buildings, railroads, steamships, factories, power plants,
telephones, aeroplanes, etc., are but the result of faith and vision.
These things are only symptoms of conditions, mere barometers which
register the faith and vision of mankind.

This religion which we talk about for an hour a week, on Sunday, is not
only the vital force which protects our community, but it is the vital
force which _makes_ our communities. _The power of our spiritual forces
has not yet been tapped!_ Our grandchildren will look back upon us and
wonder why we neglected our trust and our opportunity, just as we look
back on those poor Indians in Brazil who plowed with crooked sticks,
grinding their corn between stones and hauling it on their backs two
hundred miles from the seaboard.

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These statements are not the result of any special interest as a
churchman. I am not a preacher. I am simply a business man, and my work
is almost wholly for bankers, brokers, manufacturers, merchants and
investors. The concern with which I am associated has one hundred and
eighty people in a suburb of Boston who are collecting, compiling and
distributing statistics on business conditions. We have only one source
of income, and that is from the clients who pay us for an analysis of
the situation. Therefore you may rest assured that it is impossible for
us to do any propaganda work in the interests of any one nation, sect,
religion or church. The only thing we can give clients is a conclusion
based on a diagnosis of a given situation. As probably few of you
readers are clients of ours, may I quote from a Bulletin which we
recently sent to these bankers and manufacturers?

"The need of the hour is not more legislation. The need of the hour is
more religion. More religion is needed everywhere, from the halls of
Congress at Washington, to the factories, the mines, the fields and the
forests. It is one thing to talk about plans or policies, but a plan or
policy without a re