The statistician and business analyst, Roger Babson, has just recently written: “Business depressions are caused by dissipation, dishonesty and disobedience to God’s will—a general collapse of moral character. Statistics show this plainly. With equal precision they show how business depressions are cured. They are cured by moral awakening, spiritual revival, and the rehabilitation of righteousness.”

The great scientist, materialist, and electrical wizard, the eminent Charles P. Steinmetz, said shortly before his death: “I think the greatest discoveries in the future will be made along spiritual lines. History clearly teaches that spiritual forces have been the greatest power in the development of men and nations. Yet we have been playing with them, merely, and have never seriously studied them as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful. When this day comes, the world will see more advancement in one generation than it has seen in the past four.”

Secretaries, is it not possible that out of the ashes of this international holocaust shall arise, not only a new realization in the hearts and minds of those who have become old in their idolatry of material things, but that there will also arise a new generation who will cast the money-changers out of the human temples and who will destroy the golden idols and replace them with spiritual things and characters of high morals and high ideals? May not character become the standard of their personal evaluation? May not gold become the footstool beneath their feet, and physical and material power be but as simple weapons in their hands compared with the spiritual power that will create and mature within their beings?