Using Wealth to Bless Humanity
We flatter ourselves in this day of grace and blessing that we are getting better, yet the hearts of millions are unmoved when other millions are starving. Men professing Christianity with untold millions of wealth look indifferently or not at all upon the suffering, needy, sick, diseased, in our own cities. Why not spend a hundred millions or so upon hygienic houses, simple little cottages, which will let in clean sunlight and pure air, and rent them at a nominal cost, and tear out the wretched disease-breeding, sin-breeding slums? When work is slack, why should not the Government spend a few millions in great continental road-building, paying wages sufficient to enable men to live, but not enough to induce them to be unambitious for other employments? O, there are so many ways in which the millions could be used to bless humanity!