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            The Great Wall of China is a gigantic structure which cost an immense expenditure of money and labor and which, when it was finished, appeared to be impregnable.  But three times the enemy breached it – not by breaking it down, but by bribing gatekeepers.  In one of his sermons, the famous preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, in referring to this historical fact had this to say:

            “It was the human element that failed.  What collapsed was character which proved insufficient to make the great structure men had fashioned really work.”

Lifetime Speakers Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Jacob Braude, page 102