Let the Minister Know Life (1929): “He needs to see, and hear, and know enough to understand the mind and heart of the world.” The Yielding of Aaron (1929): “...the adaptation of the principles and standards of religion to public tastes, ideals, and desires.” LIFTING COMMUNITY The Necessary Asset—Friends (1917): “The most valuable friend is the friend who is one for friendship’s sake alone.” Building a World Brotherhood (1918): “In [Jesus’s] estimation of things, a man was a man. He could be no more and there was no disposition to ever rate him as less.” The Laughing Man (1919): “My lords,” he said, “I bring you news—news of the existence of mankind.” The Safe Foundations for a League of Nations (1919): “If the hearts of men are not right toward one another, the vision of peace will be as idle a dream as it was in the past years.” Is It Nothing to You (1929): “By all these things we and ours are profoundly affected. Why should we not care?” What Makes a City? (1929): “The greatest factor [in what makes a city is] the care it takes of and the safeguards with which it surrounds its people.” LIFTING ECONOMICS Capitalizing War for the Tobacco Trade (1919): “This is always done in the name of patriotism, even though the effect may be altogether antipatriotic.” Creating a Demand (1919): “...helping to build that larger and better commercial world in which all business will be at its best because all people are at their best.” Should Prices Be Standardized? (1919): “In other words, it would lift the markets above the gambling level.” The Home Budget (1920): “It enables the poor to keep from growing poorer, and often enables them to reach comfortable circumstances.” Efficient Spending (1921): “Between the hoarding of money...and the reckless habits of the spendthrift...lies this golden mean.” LIFTING EDUCATION The Three Agencies in Child Training (1909): “...the aim of each should be the perfection of personality.” The Association of Mind and Muscle (1918): “As knowledge becomes a matter of action, it becomes a matter of purpose, ideal, and character.” The Sound-Reproducing Machine as a Music Teacher (1919): “The taste of the listener is on its way to better things.” The School Teacher and the Republic (1920): “The nation cannot recognize its obligation to the teacher too soon or too completely.” Some Overlooked Compensations in Teaching (1920): “[The teaching profession] places in the hands of those who choose it privileges which many of the rich would gladly give their gold to obtain.” Dollars Versus Sense (1921): “...preoccupation with material things. Minds become cloyed; hearts grow dull; and souls grow no wings with which to lift themselves above the mire and the clay.” Education and Production (1921): “The accepted canon in educational circles is that a man is not trained at all unless trained to be good for something, and that he must prove his culture by bringing forth fruits meet for it.”