1) Do we know “what we want?” Some people fond of taking shelter here after being charged with failure to serve the people.
2) Cannot deal with every eccentricity of myriad of individuals.
Some want a new hat
Some want work
Some want a different kind of work
Each wants the job of the other fellow
Each one in a million wants a million different things.
3) Must discern the broad generalizations that are Universals
There are some things that we all want
These are fundamental.
1. We all want to live.
First law of nature.
Never reduce the multitudes of a nation to desire the same kind of food for breakfast, but they all want breakfast.
Not all desire the same kind of work, play, or politics, yet all desire to live.
Be as well to deal with the thing that everybody wants, and forget for a little time the many things which few people want.
a) Want Life at its best.
Not the nature of man to take the second-hand thing if he can get the new at the same price.
Life to many is a grey, monotonous road to death.
Fitting condition to the saying, “We are born to die.”
First born to live. “I came that ye might have life.”
That people are not getting “the” more abundant life is shown on every hand.
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Seething unrest, general dissatisfaction, bitter criticism are the symptoms of the universal want of an abundant life withheld.
Shall we decide on this?
Not more business.
Not higher wages - by raise in price of living.
These are almost artificial wants.
Incidental - not fundamental
Represent what only a few want
One thing that all the world wants, and has it not -Life - Abundant Life.
b) There are generalizations within this most general principle.
i) Means of Life itself.
Bread and butter have been degraded by theologians, because they seldom lacked it long enough to learn its fundamental necessity.
They have called it material, and concluded that such designation was sufficient reason for neglecting its important function.
Yet how soon is the church stirred when its three meals per day are threatened.
Remained material - danger to criminals.
Backs the Union Government.
Nothing to be gained by denying the physical basis of life.
Because it is Truth.
Truth is the gospel of today, and Justice and Love our Almighty God.
Shall we deny the gelatine cell’s existence, because we have seen the more beautiful structures which rest upon it.
Food, clothing and shelter. The Trinity that in Unity makes life possible.
ii) This fact is the key to history
Will it open every door.
It opens the main door of life, through which all pass.
Human will supreme because person will go on hunger strike, etc. etc.
What if humanity did that?
Those who explained our system of political economy did not have to think of bread.
Back of all the migrations of history
The reason for modern emigration policy.
The explanation of nations
The determining factor in national character, and international policy
No one who wants life, and life at its best, can afford to ignore the primitive and permanent physical basis of life.
This is the one thing which all people want.
iii) Production to the utmost capacity of resources, and Labor and distribution to the extent of human need.
This is trite but not half as trite as the Golden Rule, and moral platitudes.
Fear of want lies at the base of our civilization.

2. We must make the world safe for the highest human life, by building on the surest foundation.
Organize for prosperity and remove from every human heart the grim spectre of fear.
The means of life must be as assured as the air we breath, before we can be Free to cultivate the finer and higher qualities of human character.
3. We want right relations among people.
This is the spiritual relations which are so much desired.
a) As far away from human brotherhood as the wolf of want is from the door.
Wherever there has been competition for that which has been limited there has resulted serious disturbance of human relations.