come lasting peace and happiness without spiritual conviction, the reason being that Spirit is Reality.

This may not seem pertinent to the discussion of whether or not we are making intelligent use of the things God has provided for us, but I have gone thus at length into the necessity of believing in a life hereafter; because it is my conviction that if a man knows that life never began and will never end, he will be immediately fortified and inspired to begin the work of bringing out perfection in his daily life. When man understands that God is incarnated in him; that he is a new creation -- an individual impartation of that which is Divine -- he feels a new birth. When he grasps the fact that the Divine thing in him which longs to be, will always be, then will his intellect see it and his emotion respond to it, and life can no longer frighten him. *President Coolidge must have sensed the need of greater stimulation of the spiritual perception of the nation the time he said: "We do not need more national development. We do not need more intelligent power: we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge: we

*Although Hoover was initially held responsible for the Great Depression of the 20th Century, history reveals that President Coolidge's bizaare policies were directly responsible for the economic chaos which led to that Depression which started on "Black Tuesday", October 24, 1929.