“The great need of the world today is applied religion. … The roots of the causes of war lie deeply bedded in vanity, selfishness, unjust commercialism, unrighteousness, and other things contrary to the spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. O, if they could only apply the Gospel in their nationalism! But they consider it only as a thing apart from daily life—as something to be treated as a mere social function. They haven’t felt that it is a vital force, the vital force in humanity” (McKay, Pathway to Happiness, 356).