miner has done all that Calvary suggests in giving life to save
others. Those whom we term sinful, sensual or criminal are simply
_young_ souls which have not evoluted far enough. When they have
passed through the seven or more incarnations they will have
attained beauty and perfection of character."

Some of the leaflets and literature distributed were dangerous in
their suggestiveness. This was one meeting only, and hundreds of
the same order were held throughout our land that day. What of the
need of the pure standards and ideals of which Home Missions is
the exponent!

The inner and true spirit of America can not be found, however,
in the emphasis upon material wealth and welfare, however dominant
that may appear to be in our civilization.

The spirit of America is expressed in the passion for liberty and
opportunity, in the "sense of moral order and responsibility, faith
in God and man, love of home, courage and hope, and in the ineradicable
and controlling idealism which have been the strongest elements in
America since the first colonists braved the dangers of a new world
for conscience sake" [Footnote: Hamilton Mabie--American Ideals,
Character and Life.] and gave to this country the impulses that
have held true through all its national history.

The ships carrying America's gifts of food to starving Belgians, the
ship laden with the Christmas gifts of America's children to little
sufferers across the seas, the hospital and Red Cross ministry given
to mitigate the devastation of a war in which America has no part,
express the real spirit of America. Whether a controlling Christian