FIFTY MILLION STRONG 



all the peoples and countries of the earth, pushing commerce 

 to the ends of the world, relieving world suffering through 

 great international organizations and the like. And all this 

 has fitted America for world leadership without the taint of 

 selfishness, the greed of gain and the ambition of dominancy. 

 America has been trained for a great task. God made the 

 Hebrews, twenty centuries before Christ, the medium through 

 which He gave the world Christianity. Is He today making 

 America the lever whereby humanity will be raised to a 

 higher plane in world civilization? 



Fifth, America's Condition. From the standpoint of finance, 

 America, of all the nations of earth, is now supreme and bids 

 fair to continue so indefinitely. While the other great powers 

 have with reckless hand been wasting their substance, America 

 has been gaining a relatively stronger position because of 

 their waning strength, and at the same time increasing her 

 possessions owing to an unusual demand for the things she 

 has to sell. A short time ago, one of the papers had a cartoon 

 representing Uncle Sam appearing at the door of his house 

 and finding on the steps a little baby in a basket labeled 

 " Financial Supremacy." Behind a tree appeared the half- 

 starved mother labeled " Europe," who was waiting to see if 

 Uncle Sam would take her baby in. Of course, Uncle Sam 

 took it in. The recent organization of a fifty-million-dollar 

 corporation in America to take care of international interests 

 rather indicates that " Financial Supremacy " will be adopted 

 by Uncle Sam and not returned to its mother. Furthermore, 

 the Great War has put to the test her whole people from the 

 standpoint of philanthropy. Never before has a nation re- 

 sponded so magnificently to the call of a suffering world as 

 has this nation during the Great War. Men and women by 

 the thousands have given themselves to all the warring nations 

 for purely humanitarian purposes, and those who have stayed 

 at home have, with a prodigal hand, contributed of their surplus 

 to mitigate as far as possible the suffering of many millions 

 of innocent families made destitute by the war. At the same 

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