The path of human progress in modern times is steep and slippery with the carcasses and blood of the socially despised working men—and the Church has not _defied_ the cash-register idolater and _demanded_ peace. Unrebuked, right proudly the cash-register devotee, the business man, blurts out: “_There is no sentiment in business_.” That proposition, “No sentiment,” is enough to make a cannibal blush. Yet that doctrine is at the heart of capitalism. _If there is no sentiment in business, then there is no brotherhood in business, for brotherhood is a sublime and beautiful sentiment._ _And if there is no brotherhood in business there can not be Christian fellowship in business._ Thus business banishes Christ and the Cross retreats before the onslaughts of the cash-register. But it is actually and sadly _true_ that business, competitive business, is too little and belittling, too wolfishly fierce, for deep and loyal brotherhood. This is also true of the great _class_ competition, the _class struggle_, the embittering clash of _industrial class interests_. And where there is no deep and loyal brotherhood, no great _socializing unity of interest_ stretching from the centre to the rim of society, including all, _peace is impossible_. Thus it is that in the great competitive business world, like quarrelsome dogs, every business man’s hand is against every other business man’s hand competing in the “same line,” to “put him out of business” and thus “get more business.” Thus local neighbors are at war in a Christless scramble for business. Thus nations also, fiercely struggling for markets and territory, are at war—commercial war—sometimes needing sword and cannon. (See pp. 40–41.) Now, notice: Christian business men in this brotherless, Christless scramble called business _must have the scramble made “respectable.”_ For this purpose the minister is most serviceable. The business men need the minister—“need him in their business”—to consecrate and sanctify the ways and means, even the sword, the cannon and the vast human slaughterings called war. “Put up thy sword,” said Christ. “Business is business! Bless the butcher! Grind sharp the sword,” commands the business man. But “no man can serve two masters.” Here the minister, just like the “common working man,” is face to face with the MOST DOMINEERING FACT AND FORCE IN HUMAN LIFE; namely, ECONOMIC NECESSITY. The preacher and the plumber, the rabbi and the sweat-shop tailor, the priest and the hod-carrier—these must _live_; they must “_get a living_.” But the capitalist controls the opportunities to “get a living.” The “common working man” is embarrassed. The minister is also embarrassed—_tho’ he may be—and very often is—one of the noblest men in the world, he is embarrassed_. This ECONOMIC force grips them both like a vise. They must live. To live they must kneel before the king—the kings in industry. OBEY OR STARVE. The inevitable follows: