Religion: Utilitarianism

Religion, like the Arts and Sciences, has to maintain itself upon a strictly economic basis. That means that its debts must be paid, its servants salaried that they may live. To do this, Religion has depended upon charity; for it is not per se a business, least of all a profitable concern in terms of cash.

Two years ago, was built in Chicago the TempleĀ—"Methodism's skyscraper church." On the ground floor is the First Methodist Episcopal Church: above are 20 floors of offices of which, according to a statement made by William W. Dixon,...

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