1 66 HEREDITY AND CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS 



help them toward, if not into, the kingdom of 

 God. 



What can individuals do to create an environment 

 which shall gradually exterminate pauperism ? 



They can learn that giving to beggars is giving 

 to multiply beggars. They can remember that 

 even paupers are children of God for whom Christ 

 died, and therefore worthy of best and most 

 thoughtful efforts for improvement. The current 

 philosophy says, The fittest will survive : let the 

 rest die. The religion of Christ says, That 

 maxim as applied to men is just only as regards 

 their characteristics, of which indeed only the 

 fittest should survive. It does not and cannot 

 apply to the men themselves, since all men, 

 being children of God, are supremely fit. The 

 very fact that a human being is sick, weak, poor, 

 an outcast and a vagabond, is the strongest 

 possible appeal for effort toward his salvation. 

 Let individuals look upon humanity from the 

 point of view of Christ, and they will not 

 be long in finding ways in which environment 

 can be bettered and caused to make for right- 

 eousness. 



A gentleman of wealth started the Polytechnic 

 Institute on Regent Street in London. It edu- 

 cates to industry and high ideals about fifteen 



