But plain as are the dangers arising from love of money, and reasonable as seem the means of meeting them, the mad race for riches goes on all over the world.  The mind is powerless to call a halt; intellectual processes fail—­man needs a voice that can speak with authority—­a voice that must be obeyed.  He needs even more—­he needs to be born again.  His heart must be cleansed and his thoughts turned to higher things.  It is to such that Christ appeals when He asks:  “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Let man cease to be brutish and become brotherly and he will need few restraining statutes.

If it is brutish to turn so-called legitimate business into grand larceny, what shall be said of those forms of money-making that deprave both parties to the transaction?  The liquor traffic furnished the best illustration of the power of the dollar to blind the eyes of greedy men to the crime and misery produced by drink.  The beneficiaries of this wicked business formerly included high church officials—­and does yet in some countries—­who swelled their incomes with the dividends collected from vice; they included also highly respected brewers and distillers as well as saloon-keepers of all degrees.  The fact that the liquor traffic manufactured criminals, ruined men and women, produced poverty, disrupted families, lowered the standard of education, lessened attendance upon worship and even afflicted little children before their birth, was not sufficient to deter people from engaging in it—­even some calling themselves Christians.  The handling of intoxicating drinks continued openly until these centers of pollution were closed by an emphatic expression of the nation’s conscience.

Now, the fight is against the bootlegger and the smuggler.  The man who peddles liquor, like the man who sells habit-forming drugs, is an outlaw and his trade is branded as an enemy of society.  The sanction given to prohibition by the law brings to its support all who respect orderly government and reduces the enemies of prohibition to those whose fondness for drink, or for the profits obtainable from its illicit sale, is sufficient to overcome conscientious scruples and a sense of civic duty.  Those who oppose prohibition now are shameless enough to become voluntary companions of the lawless members of society, but this number will constantly decrease as the virtue of the country asserts itself at the polls in the election of officials who are in sympathy with the enforcement of the law.

The unrest which pervades the industrial world to-day also threatens the stability of government.  The members of the Capitalistic group and the members of the Labour group are becoming more and more class-conscious; they are solidifying as if they looked forward with a vague dread to what they regard as an inevitable class conflict.  The same plan, Universal Brotherhood, can reconcile all class differences.  Is there