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collect, while those who collect fabulous sums are so 

 busy collecting that they have no time to earn. 



Chapter VII deals with the Bible account of the 

 healing of the ten lepers, nine of whom were ungrate- 

 ful. It applies this great lesson of ingratitude to the 

 citizens of our own country. Three priceless gifts are 

 used as illustrations; viz., Christianity, education, and 

 popular government. Education is described as a gift 

 rather than an accomplishment because it depends so 

 largely upon inherited advantages and opportunities 

 that come with the environment of youth. Quotations 

 are given to show that many who receive the benefits 

 of education are not only as ungrateful as the nine 

 lepers but actually use against society the strength 

 which education gives them. Wendell Phillips is quoted 

 as saying that the people make history while the 

 scholars only write it, part truly and part as colored 

 by their prejudices. President Wilson is quoted as 

 saying that the great voice of America does not come 

 from seats of learning or even find an echo in the 

 corridors of our universities. President Roosevelt is 

 quoted as saying that there is scarcely a great con- 

 spiracy against the public welfare that has not Har- 

 vard brains behind it — and the charge applies to other 

 universities as well as to Harvard. Emphasis is laid 

 upon the duty of Christians to meet their obligations as 

 citizens and on the Church to deal with all the problems 

 that confront the world. 



Chapter VIII deals with " His Government and 

 Peace," and was suggested by verse seven of the ninth 

 chapter of Isaiah: " Of the increase of his government 



