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We talk a great deal about our prosperity. The well-to-do have become wealthy; the wealthy have become opulent, yet "the poor are always with us." Moreover, their poverty is no whit lessened by the prosperity of those who have so much. What satisfaction may they draw from this...
However much Christmas may signify to children as a time of gift-receiving, and to college students as a period for idling and waxing fat on the delights of the home kitchen, yet its inner and true meaning should in no way be forgotten.
Professor Fosdick was preacher in the First Baptist Church of Montclair, New Jersey, from 1904 to 1915, when he accepted the professorship of practical theology in the Union Theological Seminary of New York. His writings include "The Second Mile," "The Manhood of the Master" and "The Meaning of Prayer."
Like many fundamental truths, the idea of "doing a little more than the job calls for" has become so disagreeably trite and familiar that it has lost all its meaning.
It would do a great many men good, who are weary of the land that gave them birth, and eager for the name of cosmopolites, to strive to see wherein lies the true spirit of America, and what is the real meaning, the true vision, that lies beneath the materialism...