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Show Let Loam T QoxopBratte EDITORIALS lly C. N. LUND o Cooperatives and Christianity. By a World Patriot and Humanitarian- What a boon it would be if redemptive love could have free course to do its full and perfect workl Then denominations denom-inations would turn from minor religious issues The churches would correlate their forces and unite in setting in motion a brotherhood movement which would express itself through cooperatives for producers, marketing finance finan-ce and purchasing. Where profits accrue, they could be utilized in providing life, accident and unemployment insurance in-surance and in organizing mutual aid and medical cooperatives. cooper-atives. If the profitsmake.it possible, even educational cooperatives could be organized. Moreover, if world missions would organize Christian cooperatives clear across all the mission fields and actually realize redemptive love in cooperative living, where would materialistic communism com-munism have a ghost of a chance? Personally, I am pouring my prayers and the reddest blood of my life into the work of "carrying forward this quiet undramatic, economic reformation. Qb, God, make haste! Teach the world's Christians the task of creating cooperatives in which thy redeeming love shall find full and free expression and realization in our day. |