| Show 1 POWERfUL IL TAU TALK IN I. I O. O O. O F. F j HAll HAIL BY REV AU MR I Most Serious Problem Is How to Reach the Masses Christianity a 8 Reply to Social Unrest Un tn rest re was the subject of a powerful sermon preached in I. I O. O 0 o. F. F hall yesterday yes yesterday Yes Yes- II by v the Rev Re- Charles Curtis Me- Me Ic fc- The TIle discourse dealt with labor and capital and with ith the n undercurrent of dissatisfaction dissatisfaction with the the churches and their methods II The The sense of the maladjustment mal of the present social order he hp raid caid is becoming the supreme emotion of the masses lever were there so man many p people people educated educated ll and antI ignorant rich and anel poor poor so so exercised Labor unions and secret organizations organisations are arc numbering their memberships by br the hundreds of thousands and millions Brains like those of lIe el Carlyle Ruskin Marx La Sale Salle W. W T. T Mills s Professor Pea Peabody body have hae been bren enlisted enlisted The very cry pillars of modern society are arc bein being unflinchingly ly examined rl and not nota a reformation but a a. revolution is proposed pro pro- posed posed posed-a a substitution of a new and different social socia system requiring different different differ differ- ent methods and babits habits of mind from front those of the present order The industrial problem is ill the most perplexing in affairs of state In religion re re- ligion the most serious problem probe is how to reach the masses There is a stron strong tendency in modern thought bt to displace church and Christianity with Socialism secret societies and the te labor union Views View of Christianity The answer of nf Christianity to the he present sent industrial questions that are area a agitating the public mind mini is not to overthrow the present order but to vitalize ze it with the spirit of the the teachings teach in ings s of Christ Christianity Christianity- bids the capitalist tear fEaT down the artificial differences differences differences dif dif- which wealth we position and privilege have created The rich should beware of the to temptations 1 that accompany accompany accompany pany wealth wealth vulgarity vulgarity ostentation i display display- material ambition material standards of happiness which happiness which go o tomake to tomake tomako make mako the soul unsympathetic un un- and uns unspiritual To the working men Christianity records records records re re- cords its admiration admiration that for the most ost part they have chosen wise leaders Motivated cultivated just feelings s and tt temperate views raised efficiency of labor Jabor set the tho example of calmness and self re and promoted the human welfare welfare welfare wel wel- fare of the men of their own craft and of f the world WOld of workers To the c church Christianity says study tudy the social problem become intelligently in- in informed Rho show to the world by deeds that to the church belon belongs be- be lon longs s t tho o. o primacy in all amelioration I 1 and so social ial betterment of men and in I their intellectual confusion disclose the economic and the ethical principles which are laid jn in the Bible of everlasting ing fn ng truth up upon n which alone can be bUilt uirl the agold gold silver and pre precious ious stones of ot an enduring social system |
