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we help such a lowly, dependent folk, who have no tradi- 

 tions of independence or liberty to brace them? If we 

 dole out charity to them we rob them of the very thing 

 they need training in most of all. It is not doles of 

 charity they need but help to help themselves. Teach 

 them by their own efforts how to earn their own living, 

 and such a living as will enable them not only to have 

 enough to eat, and to be decently clothed, but a living 

 which contemplates education for the children, contribu- 

 tions to schools and churches, to hospitals and libraries, a 

 living which enables them to take full responsibility as 

 citizens. 



I believe the best and quickest way to do this is to 

 train them in agriculture, train the best and brightest in 

 a good central institution so that the ones so trained can 

 go out to their own folk in the villages. The ones trained 

 in modern farming can earn much more than the un- 

 trained, so much more in fact that they can pay their 

 own way and take their part as self-supporting members 

 of the community. Some people who have seen this 

 mass movement work criticize it. They say these peo- 

 ple do not understand Christianity, that their motives 

 are mixed and often unworthy, that they come to Christ 

 for what they can get out of Him, that they are mer- 

 cenary Christians, that they come for the loaves and 

 fishes, that they are rice Christians. Having said so 

 much they think the work is condemned and the case 

 closed, but is it ? Grant all they say, it means that these 

 poor folk see in Christianity more than in their old faith. 

 While adhering to their old faith material progress was 

 impossible, under Christianity it is possible. Under 

 their old faith they were denied common human rights, 



