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Mid-Victorian Evangelicalism -- The beginning of a youth movement -- Uncritical Pietism -- The discipline of college teaching -- Academic freedom in religion -- Democratizing religious scholarship -- Discovering the real world -- The reconstruction of a denomination -- The social gospel -- Church unity through federation -- Building a moral reserve for citizenship -- The churches and inter-racial relations -- International good will and war -- Religion and science -- Religious education in the churches -- Modernizing theological education -- Fundamentalism and Modernism -- And tomorrow? ; Mode of access: Internet.

Speech reflecting on challenges facing the American South ; -10- operations are not profitable. Then the question is asked, "If one owner "with 400 fertile acres can not profit, how can ten owners with 40 acres profit?" Simply because you pass from one system of administration that disregards the interest of the worker, and pass to a system of administration that gives him a stake in the land, thus conserving the human values upon which all real wealth depends. No system is sound from a business point of view that is not sound from a social point of view, though it may take years to prove it in particular situations. We've simply got to improve the conditions under "which our children are growing up. If you say, "But the attempts to do that thing are costing too much!" we say, "The cost of not doing it is much more!" We are driving now for a safer and better world for the next generation. I have dwelt upon the tenant situation because it is the South's greatest social problem - a particular problem involving not only the tenants, but our entire social structure. It is necessary in making progress to deal with specific problems. There isn't any single formula to be applied for the reshaping of society. A policy for the South rests finally upon parallel policies for each of our major problems. Only the lazy dreamer who fears the complexities of individual problems seeks escape in the political fundamentalism of Long and Talmadge. We know, of course, that we can not provide opportunities immediately for all tenant farmers, even with the Bankhead-Jones measure. The work of finding new opportunities for 300,000 farmers who have been forced to seek the aid of relief agencies in the last few years is the task of the Resettlement Administration, under Dr. R. G. Tugwell. "While I was speaking of absentee ownership, I should have included some forms of absentee ownership of public utilities, Mr. Howard Hopson's kind, for example. The South's utility interests are generally well managed when ownership and control are vested in those who reside with us and know our needs. Absentee ownership can not provide by remote control what the resident interest supplies. The owners of Cuba's utilities lived in the United States. They were unacquainted with and unsympathetic with the little country's social problems. But they