WHAT AMERICA WANTS.
In America the religious spirit is constantly springing up in the most unexpected places. One would hardly cxpe.-t to read in a Stock Exchange journil a wise and thoughtful religious message. Yet in a Wall street paper we find an editorial nn the needs of lite country which is full of the Christian spirit." In effect it says: "What America needs is not more wealth, more territory, a stronger army or nary, more railroads, or any increase of material prosperity, but a revival of oldtime piety in the hearts of its people. It needs the kind of piety that could ■l.e time for family worship, and stop half an hour earlier at night, even in the busiest season, to get ready for the mid-week prayer-meeting; the . piety that could put the same honest saeriliee and effort into building its homes: that sincerity held attendance at church and its services a duty and a privilege, and its teachings—the teachings of God's Word—a rule of life." "This," says the London Christian World, "is the Wail street estimate of the demand of the hour. Wealth is, perhaps, discovering its limitations, and finding that it
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 28 September 1907, Page 3
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194WHAT AMERICA WANTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 28 September 1907, Page 3
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