The question now comes: Can we give? Is there money enough to give? There is an article in the “Century” for November, I think it is, which states, after computation from two cities of considerable size, that four-fifths of the inhabitants were attendants upon church services. The figures struck me with absolute astonishment and consternation. And, you remember, a year ago it was said that fully one-fifth of all the property in the United States, according to calculation, is held in the hands of Christians. I saw this so late that I had not time to go over it extensively; so I took the single city of Worcester. I took the 322 highest tax-payers in that city, and I called on a man who I supposed knew best the church-going habits and pew-owning property of these leading business men, and I said: “Will you tell me where this one goes and that one goes?” We marked them off last Sunday night, and of the whole 322 we found only 65 whom we did not know to be church-goers; and it is safe to say from the percentage that 25 of the 65 were church-goers—men who belonged to families that we felt sure would attend the house of God. We knew that 255 attended church; and adding the 25 that were doubtful, we had 280 out of 320 of the leading men in the city of Worcester that attend the Protestant churches in that city. Take the banks. There are eleven banks in Worcester, and we went over the names of the directors and trustees. Out of the entire number (there were two unknown) we found only three individuals that were not represented in a church, and two of these were the same man—that is, one was a director in two banks. Now, what is the use? Shall we say that the money belongs to the evil and the piety to the good? The piety and the money, the heart and the gold, are ever in the church. We are reading of a house to be put up in a celebrated watering-place that will cost $750,000. I saw that in the city of New York the land where that great opera-house is, brought the sum of $700,000. The owner of this property in either case would keep two great organizations like this going; and I said, “What! do we want some of that money that is to build that summer resort by the sea?” No, we don’t want it. “But we would like some of that money that is beneath that splendid building that is costing its millions?” No; we don’t want it. If men will build houses for self, let the Christian do his work for the Master, and let us outdo the world.