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ciple that the poor must be made
is held that the dietary laws of the self-helping be better expressed
Bible indicate a very widespread than in the Biblical injunction that
knowledge of the laws of what we the upper and the nether millstone
are accustomed to call modern sani- shall not be taken as pledge ?
Still, these are but single in-
tation. Certain it is that there are
wonderful coincidences between the stances of hundreds that might be
health laws of the Bible and those quoted as interpreting the same
sanctioned by modern medicine. In- principle. The law, for instance,
deed, it was pointed out but recently against humiliating the poor man by
by one of the most eminent physi- compelling him to go into the house
cians in this part of the country that of the money-lender for his pledge,
there must have been a very real the law against keeping the garment
knowledge of food values on the of the poor man over night, are all
part of those who compiled the die- instances
of the same high concep-
i
tary code of the Bible. Nor is it less lion which is basic to our new phi-
remarkable that there seems to have lanthropy.
been a very great insistence upon
And if we turn from philanthropy
the laws of quarantine against the to the realm of sociology, we find
spread of contagious disease. Other equally striking insistences. The
Teasures, too, looking to the preser-, law prohibiting the keeping of
vation of health and which are prac- the wages of the hireling over night
tically universally endorsed by the is surely direct foreshadowing of
medical profession today; find our regulations in regard to the
recognition in the Bible. Still, I do minimum wage. The rules regulat-
not hold that the Bible is a textbook ing the battlement about the roof,
of science. Grant, if we may, that the careful guarding of ditches in
some of the compilers of that great the road and what not, are eloquent
work were scientifically far ahead testimony that it has not remained
of their times, their great contribu- for the men of the 20th century to
lion to civilization has not been think of the guarding of the laborer
along the lines of .science. And yet against industrial accidents. The
there are coincidences so striking varied laws having to do with
and so numerous between the view- slavery and the distinctions drawn
point of the Bible and that taken between the voluntary slave and the
by men who are leaders in every mere wage earner indicate beyond
sphere making for the conservation the shadow of a doubt that some
of human society, that one must sense of industrial justice had be-
pause before the Bible in admiration gun to dawn on man long before
if not in reverence.
our day and generation. The pro-
We speak in these times constant- nouncethent that in time of war,
ly of the new social sciences and the when it became necessary to destroy
new sense of justice that has de- a village, the fruit-bearing trees
veloped and of the new relation- should not be harmed, tells in elo-
ships that obtain between brother quent phrase that we of this day
men. Strange, is it not, then, that are not the first to understand the
in the Bible we find regulations, the importance of the conservation of
righteousness of which is taken our natural resources. And here
axiomatically for granted, that again, then, we might go on and
touch our new philanthropy, our illustrate the Point we make that
new sociology, our new religion, if our new sociology is not so very
you will, at every angle. What is new after all.
there in our new philanthropy, so-
But more impressive than all the
called, whose basic principle is the
ata that I have brought to you in
preservation of the self-respect of d
the individual and the putting of this connection is what may be said
the poor man in a position of self- in regard to. the antiquity of what
dependence, that can go beyond the we are pleased to call the new re-
magnificent Penteuchal regulations ligion• How ridiculous it seems to
having to do with the dignity even speak of the new , religion when
of the poor man, and the need of every ideal of the program con-
preserving his self-respect ? What, templated by that term has been set
in your modern social codes, is there down by the genius-endowed spirits
that more surely tends to the ac- of Israel's prophets more than two
complishment of such high purpose thousand years ago: For what is
than the regulation by which the the new religion? Is it a protest
corner of the firle was to be set against more credalism ? Who, then.
• aside as the poor man's right, on has protested against it with that
the sole condition that he, himself, same vehemence, . with that same
should perform the labor of the in- virility, with that same spiritual
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