is is most significant when one resorts to statistics and learns that
everything that we have,--every improvement, every railroad, every ship,
every building costing in excess of $5,000, every manufacturing concern
employing over twenty men, yes, every newspaper and book worth while,
has originated and been developed in the minds of less than two per
cent. of the people. The solution of our industrial problems and the
reduction of the cost of living depend not on fighting over what is
already produced, but upon producing more. This means that this two per
cent. must be increased to four per cent., and then to six per cent. If
all the good things which we now have, come from the enterprise of only
two per cent., it is evident that we would all have three times as much
if the two per cent were increased to six per cent.

Jesus was absolutely right in His contention that if we would seek first
the Kingdom of God and His righteousness all these other things would
naturally come to us. This is what Jesus had in mind when He urged
people to give and serve, promising that such giving and serving should
be returned to them a hundred fold or more. Jesus never preached
unselfishness or talked sacrifice as such, but only urged His hearers to
look through to the end, see what the final result would be and do what
would be best for them in the long run. Jesus urged His followers to
consider the spiritual things rather than the material, and the eternal
things rather than the temporal; but not in the spirit of sacrifice. The
only sacrifice which Jesus asked of His people was the same sacrifice
which the farmer makes when he throws his seed into the soil.

The story of the loaves and fishes is still taught as a miracle, but the
day will come when it will not be considered such. The same is true
regarding the incident when Jesus found that His disciples had been
fishing all night without results and He suggested that they cast the
net on the other side. They followed His advice and the net immediately
filled with so many fishes that they could hardly pull it up. If we
to-day would give more thought to the spiritual and less to the
material, we would have more in health, happiness, and prosperity. The
business men to-day would be far better off if--like the fishermen of
Galilee--we would take Jesus' advice and cast our net on "the other
side."

We are told that with sufficient faith we could remove mountains. Have
mountains ever been