First, whatever is to be our particular job, we must relate it to the supreme common task at which God and all good men are working. Unless we see and assert that relation, we are mere day-laborers or slaves, with neither intelligence nor enthusiasm. Second, anyone who, instead of loyally relating his life-work to God’s work, pursues his own ambition at the expense of the Kingdom and damages it to make profit for himself, is like a man who takes pay to damage his country. He makes the work harder for all who are more faithful than he, and their blood will be upon him. Third, “_noblesse oblige_.” If we belong to the republic of learning and education, something extra is justly due from us. Here, for instance, is the evangelization of the world in this generation. An organization has been created to accomplish it. Heroic pioneers have died, preparing the way for larger forces. Is our life fit and good enough to put into that? Here is the Christianization of the social order in the next two generations. What have all our social studies been for in the design of God? To fit ourselves for exploiting our fellows or to show them the way to the Kingdom of God? Suggestions for Thought and Discussion I. _Our Untapped Reserves_ 1. How far is a person who produces nothing, of use to the community? Is increase of productive efficiency the test of progress? 2. Does religion help to call out reserves of energy in human nature? II. _The Energy of Jesus_ 1. How far did Jesus give evidence of audacity and high power energy? Has the Christian Church realized this? How about the portrayals of him in art? 2. Furnish evidence that Jesus demanded sincere work. How was this connected with the Kingdom of God in his mind? 3. Give proof that he demanded heroism of his followers as a commonplace thing. 4. How did this temper affect his view of prayer? III. _Christianity and Work_ 1. Has Christianity ever promoted idleness? If so, what type of Christianity was it? 2. Taken as a whole has Christianity increased the amount of work done, or lessened it? Give historical proof. 3. Would it raise the economic efficiency of an African tribe to become Christians? Would it raise the efficiency of the Mexican people if they adopted a purer type of Christianity? How? 4. Where is the idler’s place in the Kingdom of God? IV. _The Reenforcement of Christianity by the Kingdom Ideal_ 1. Is a call to be converted a call to enjoy spiritual peace or to exert spiritual energy? 2. How has the idea arisen that Christianity is a "dope" to make people contented amid wrong conditions? 3. How would the Kingdom faith give religious quality to the plain man’s job? 4. Other things being equal, has a religious man more or less fighting energy against wrong than a non-religious man? 5. If a man passes from an individualistic to a social conception of religion, what change will it make in moral action?