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Show of Industrial trusts If they neglect tho call to serve while Insisting on the right to have efficiency In labor, better bet-ter work as well as better wages this must be the program If Industrial justice jus-tice la also demanded. Toe many of the generations now passing have been content to havo, to hold and enjoy. We have been so easily satisfied with low Ideals of the religion of Christ. Our consciences have not been troubled wood tbe strong oppressed tbe weak. We have been fearful to Inquire too closely aa to sources of wealth and methods of production. Tho young people of today are exactly ex-actly what wo made them. Too frequently fre-quently have practically abdicated their position of direction and leadership, leader-ship, certainly they hsve not exercised strong spiritual Influence, by example ss well aa precept In holding up a simple sim-ple and natural religious home Ufa. LEVEL IS LOWERED. Without a vital faith, without definite defin-ite stsndards of conduct having back of them divine ssnctlons. the level of popular moral opinion will steadily bo-come bo-come lowered. . It has already been terribly ter-ribly lowered through tho menace of divorce, which encourages a selfish and extreme Individualism In disrupting disrupt-ing the American home and poisoning the springs of social life. I Ws bsvo little sympathy with critics who adopt a eensorous attitude toward youth, always complsinlng and generally gener-ally condemning. Freedom of behavior and carelessness of speech may mean and often doea mean, not lack of courtesy cour-tesy or consideration, but dislike of convention, tho desire to bo natural and human. This church has labored faithfully In the case of that unity for which Christ preyed. Conferences on unity will accomplish ac-complish something; plsns for unity may bring Christiana of many namea Into TntleT" ejwpethy and endeeeiead Ing and growing appreciation, each of the other; but only as we all give our. eelvea fully and freely to unselfish service ser-vice can ws corns togsther In nntty of life. We must refuse to Isolate the spiritual life. So shall wo find Ufa In loalng It, not merely aa Individuals, hut aw a church. pfllLflOTE illS BEAD BEFORE jlflfJAIJESSIOfl I Service, Unity and Devotion jj to Christian Principles Are r: Emphasized in Farewell J . Letter to the Workers ', - ! i PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 21. Service, ' wnlty and devotion to Christian prln-! prln-! clplea ars emphasised In tho pastoral ' ' letter read today at tho closing ser-. ser-. I rices of tho forty-seventh triennial j rrfnventlon of tho Pro stent Episcopal 4 church In tho United States, which has peen In session hero sine September , j Tho clergy and the laity of the I hnrch ars enjoined in this letter to ' put tho principles of Christ Into effect ' so- solve the present day problems of ''i Industry, labor and of family life. Oot-I Oot-I j Standing paasagss In tne letter follows: J Service! It Is tho leaaon which ; j xuany of the members of this church , eve special opportunity to apply to j I Industrial Ufa. Were great corpora- lions to realise that they axa and must t l, prtmsrlly corporations for public .' j acrvlce rather than for private profit, i t would bo easier to reply to agitators ! i Vtio threaten their peace and prosper-, prosper-, It. UNIONS CALLED TO SERVE. ' .. And labor) The unions will bo as ; ; cMtnllv hated a Ihe mot tinptiopiilwr |