FIFTY MILLION STRONG 



some cases results have been obtained in churches by getting 

 together the people of the community and getting as much 

 out of them as possible. But results of this kind are exceed- 

 ingly transitory and a church that by this method is built 

 up today may be down tomorrow. But a church that rises 

 because the whole community has been placed on a higher 

 plane agriculturally, socially, intellectually, spiritually, has 

 made fundamental progress. So the leaders of the future 

 in the country must be men broad enough to understand life 

 in its entirety and to work primarily for the development 

 of the community along all lines and secondarily fqr progress 

 in the field that engages their special attention. The country 

 wants no leaders that do not know something about all 

 country work, and all about some country work, and are 

 unable to correlate the activities of the .country, giving every 

 activity its proper place. 



A study of cooperative activities shows that much good 

 comes from them. They tend to eliminate selfishness. If a 

 man concerns himself solely with his own individual affairs, 

 unconsciously selfishness gets such complete possession of 

 him that he is almost incapable of unselfish effort. In 

 mingling with men in all kinds of undertakings, some for 

 profit and others for welfare purposes, he comes gradually 

 to subordinate his own desires to the dictates of the majority. 

 To the extent to which men in greater or lesser numbers can 

 work together and achieve success through their united efforts, 

 to that extent is the growth of selfishness in their natures 

 retarded, since the highest achievements of cooperative effort 

 presuppose the entire absence of selfishness. One of the 

 finest evidences of the growth of civilization through the 

 centuries is the fact of the gradual subsidence of selfishness 

 in the individual and the gradual growth of the philanthropic 

 spirit. 



During the mobilization of her army, just before her 

 entrance into the great war, Italy found it necessary to ask 

 many railroad men to work to the limit of human endurance, 

 for which extra pay was promised; but, notwithstanding the 



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