that labor struggle, there slowly came the Hebrew nation with all of its contribution to the social and religious enrichment of mankind. It is significant that life in the palace had not paralyzed the sympathies of Moses or deadened his sense of justice. Lord Shaftesbury endured the bitter hatred of his fellow-peers in England, but he wrote the first chapter of modern labor legislation. Jane Addams went from college to share the life of the workers in Chicago and become a mighty force in leading her state and the nation to a new estimate of human values. Already there are signs that the next quarter of a century will see strong men of the nations of the East rise up, under the stimulus of Christianity, to lead in the emancipation of its workers. If industrial management had the human point of view, would it be necessary for the community to legislate so carefully for the protection of the workers? How can more college men be led to see the human values in industry and to conserve them?

SECOND DAY: The Value of a Life

And he departed thence, and went into their synagogue and behold, a man having a withered hand. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? that they might accuse him. And he said unto them, What man shall there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man of more value than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day. -Matt. 12: 9-12.

Jesus astutely turns the tables on the scribes and Pharisees. He takes them back to the authority of the very law which they have been evading in their religious conventions. They display much the same reaction to his healing a man on the Sabbath as some very good Christians had to the use of the churches by the unemployed during an unemployment crisis one recent winter. Sabbath keeping and property rights superior to human needs!

Slowly but surely the Christian standard of values has been set up in the world. "The great thought of the present century is the transference of value from property to humanity,” says the dean of a great law school.

Our legislatures now give attention to eight-hour laws and minimum wage bills. Congress considers poisonous sulphur in the match industry, as well as the claims of the pork barrel. But it is still difficult enough to secure adequate attention for humanitarian legislation. A prominent Sunday school worker was recently found at the State House opposing child labor legislation, and the secretary of a Christian Association recently lent his influence to the same cause. How can we help such men to see more clearly the nature of the struggle?

THIRD DAY: The Workers Want a Chance at Life

A college graduate who had made a great success in a mining enterprise was telling his bishop what new comforts and luxuries he proposed to give his family the following year.. "But," said the bishop, "what about the men in the mines; should they not have more pay and higher standards of living?" "Yes," said the college man, "they ought to have them, but my family comes first. I cannot do both, and we simply must have these things." In what did his attitude differ from that of the old Greeks who regarded the workers as an inferior class?

A manual laborer, writing to a sympathetic friend of wealth living in the same city, records his deep sense of injustice at the two standards of living conditions. They were living in wholly different worlds. Is this compatible with Paul's great declaration that "all are one in Christ Jesus"? If this barrier is to be crossed in religion, must it not also be crossed in the world of economic and social relations between races as well as classes? Read Gal. 3: 23-28.

FOURTH DAY: A Rest Day Helps

Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee. Six days shalt thou labor,

and do all thy work; but the seventh day is a sabbath
unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any
work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor
thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and
thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. And thou
shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land
of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out
thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm:
therefore Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep
the sabbath day.-Deut. 5: 12-15.

Here is an ancient community regulation for securing a rest day. The service which God required on this day was that men should cease from labor and give the same privilege to the immigrant worker who was employed by them. Our Sabbath regulation has been based upon a different idea. It has been an attempt to secure the observance of the day. Now we are attempting to secure legislation based squarely on this rest-day principle. But the monotonous and confining nature of modern industry makes this more necessary than ever before. At least a million men in the United States work seven days a week. The effort for a rest day goes back to the very roots of our religious development. Does this not suggest the religious value of the shorter work day? It puts God out into the life of the common people. How does the realization of this fact make labor legislation a spiritual endeavor? Meditate upon the rights of Jesus as a worker at a modern carpenter's bench! In many lands toil never ceases for rest days. As modern industry is being introduced no day of rest has yet been recognized.

FIFTH DAY: What Counts More Than Results?

An efficiency engineer was recently asked if one result of the efficiency movement was not to increase unemployment, to push out into the ranks of the unemployed those who are unable to keep up with the speed of the system. He ad

mitted that this was so, but declared it was no concern of his. Was he right?

A salesman who had worked many years for a large concern, and had tried in vain to buy stock in the business and thus provide for his old age, was recently told that if he could not keep up to the pace set by the younger men his route would have to be taken away and given to another; that the management could not consider age nor years of service, but simply the turning in of business. This sounds strangely like the treatment of aged animals by the fierce young leaders of a roving pack. Does anything count more than "results"?

Both these incidents reveal an attitude which is being abandoned by the more humane managers in industry. Are there murderers in the industrial world today? Read Gen. 4: 1-15. From that cry to the Sermon on the Mount is a long road to travel. Would we get social justice quicker if the captains of industry had sometimes to change places with the unemployed; if they had to stand for a while in the breadlines, and sleep in the park?

SIXTH DAY: Who Gets Too Much?

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.-I Tim. 6: 10.

If the workers desire more money because they seek higher standards of living, good things for homes and children, then their desire becomes a spiritual force and makes for the progress of the whole community. Whether or not the love of money is to be a root of all kinds of evil depends upon whether it is sought for self, or is a social desire leading to higher standards of living.

The community which has accepted the standards revealed in the Bible has always sought something approaching equality of income. One purpose of the Hebrew law was that no man

might be born into poverty. When Nehemiah tried to reorganize the life of Jerusalem, he persuaded the rich to return to the poor the interest on their mortgages. The Jerusalem community of early Christians attempted to raise the standard of living for all. To realize such a standard will require much effort and some sacrifice by the strong. Are we willing to limit our income for the sake of justice in the community? Is there hope that men will be fair about the profits they exact from the poor of the community, or shall we be driven to fix prices by law?

SEVENTH DAY: Labor Serves Human Needs

For which is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am in the midst of you as he that serveth.-Luke 22: 27. Recall the attitude of Jesus toward service.-Luke 22: 24-27; John 13: 1-17.

Jesus was teaching his disciples that the highest freedom and joy of life come only to one who is able to take the attitude of service. Is this spiritual privilege to be confined to certain classes of people and to certain spheres of life? When the United States Government classifies the different occupations of the country, it puts one group under the head of "personal service." The minister, the lawyer, the physician, the nurse, the teacher-they serve human needs directly. Workers in commerce and industry serve more remotely. The more complex the industry becomes, the more difficult it is for those who are engaged in it to see how they are serving human needs. They seem to be merely making money for some corporation, for some employer, or for themselves. The whole process tends to become a sharing of the spoils instead of cooperative community service. Can the best work ever be done when people are working primarily for profit? Here is the great question of industry: Can it be organized into a cooperative human service to make personalities as well as to coin dollars?