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Show CHURCHES AND LABOR PR08LEB "The church must get under the labor la-bor problem of our day or get out of the way. Wc arc already in the midst of an industrial rcolution in America and in the world, jreater than the religious re-ligious reformat Ion of the sixteenth contury or the political one of the eighteenth century, and it Is the biggest big-gest thing of our day," said Frederick Vinlng Fisher at the Methodist church last night in his sermon on 'Has the Chinch a Message for the Working-. Working-. man of Today?" He spoke in part as follows: "The striking1 fact is that the very years which brought forth the American and French revolutions, tho birth of modern mod-ern politlcnl freedom, by tho invention of machinery gave birth to Industrial slavery, and only In our day nre we really beginning to plan to get out of it "The signing of the arbitration treaty and the downfall of the tyranny tyran-ny of the house of lords, all within the past month, mark the climax results re-sults of that political revolution, but the work of this industrial revolution is yet largely to be done Industrial slavery began by the worklngman giving giv-ing up his tools to the fellow who could buy the machine It may ond by all the worklngmen all togethor once more owning their tools and all of us owning in common what we have to use In common. The church has been accused of not only having no message for tho laboring labor-ing man In this crisis, but of being In his way. "If by the church you mean some groups or leaders of organized religion, re-ligion, that Is partly true, as for instance, in-stance, the bishops of the English church have too often opposed labor , reforms, "But If you mean by tho church the great body of common, cverydny working work-ing men and women who make up the ranks of thoso today, who, under the leadership of the carpenter of Nazareth, Naza-reth, go out to push the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, I say that the workingmen have no better friends In the world, and that that church has a clear, distinct message for the labor crises. "Three distinct, strong statements In the Bible sum up the Christian solution so-lution nnd philosophy of tho lnbor problem, three things which If every man, capitalist or worklngman, would tomorrow begin to live out in America, Ameri-ca, the whole question would be nigh solved and society revolutionized. What are they? Listen: " 'Let every man bear his own burden.' bur-den.' " 'Bear ye ono another's burdens. " 'Cast your burden on the Lord ' "That Is, stop shirking, talking about rights and looking around to see how much you can escape doing and how much you enn shift on the other fellow, but be a man and get down to business and lift and do all you possl-blv possl-blv can In the world's work. '"Then what? Why, look around now, not to see who you can unload on. but whose burden you can help lift. Then when bravely We in America, Ameri-ca, each In his own place doing our best, and all together bravely facing wrong and downing it and helping our brothers like real comrades, then wo can look up lo our God and saj 'Wo are doing our Ife'sl, 'O, God, now help us lift, and you and I and God together to-gether can make this old world what It ought to be " |