Modern Review November 1912

The liberality of the gift of seven lakhs of rupees and the enlightened judgment bs which the money is applied in the best manner possible for the promotion of education deserve the highest praise. [...] It is because of the power of finance of the tremendous wealth which a comparatively few men possess! Veritably and in spite of all our boast of freedom the voice of the rich few is stronger than the voice of the great body of the English people. [...] The great question is therefore will the love of wealth continue to spread in the future as it has spread during the past fifty or hundred years or will the love of something more spiritual and idealistic together with the hatred of the materialistic spirit and of the stunted moral and spiritual condition which the love of wealth is producing prove the stronger? [...] As a matter of fact the ideals of the Church are out of date and are not acceptable to the great mass of the people being indeed decidedly inferior to the ideals which icreasing numbers of the people are coming to accept. [...] The first is: Who and what are the men who constitute the pillars of the Church at the present time ? The second is : What is the ideal which the leaders of the Church represent and blieve in the troll' which their own lives body forth ? By answers to these questions will if I mistake not reveal the real power and influence of the Church its ability to guide and support a great civilisation