The Bidness of Christianity

In September 1959, the campus Coordinator of Religious Life gave a speech to the incoming Texas A&M Class of 1963 about the Christian religion. The first two goals he recommended that students pursue were (1) to do "more than [they] were paid to do" and (2) to never ask for or expect anything they did not earn.

In other words, a local leader of the Christian community at Texas A&M was telling students as a first-and-foremost matter of Christian faith that they should give more to their employers than they were paid for, and not expect any similar gift from them in return.

That's one way to end up with some very rich people in Texas...

("Bidness" was the late Molly Ivins' word for big-money Texas business interests.)