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Show SUNDAY NIGHT CLUB ens UP QUESTION OF SOCIALISM i Following some excellent music appropriate ap-propriate to the occasion. W. W. Fleetwood said at the Sunday Xipriit club open forum that the ciub had been successful for several years in getting injo Closer louch with thought and activity along the highway to that great goal of humanity, namely, the kingdom on earth of Cod and Christ. Of ihe church and the community, Mr. Fleetwood spoke in part as follows: The spirit of "other worldliness" that characterized Christianity for many vrars had o tendency to makf people bear ills with fortitude because the more the suffering, the greater the reward in the nxt world. Injustice In-justice would be done away with at Chris? V coming. Tf man was loyal to church he was promised a place i-i the world to come. If not, he went to a place pictured by Dante and Milton Mil-ton The purpose of the church is really I defeated, If moral perfection Is made! a condition of being in the church The aim is to help men gain strenrth of purpose and to make lives useful. To build a hospital and put up a sign that none but those perfectly well could enter, would be Just as rational & to say that none but the morallv perfect were entitled to come into the church "I come not to call the righteous but flinnora.' It is a common, but erroneous, idea that one In the church assumes height and superiority. As a matter of fact, the man who belongs to church understands un-derstands and teatlfles to strength that comes from prayer, sacraments and worship. We have chanced our conception of ' what the good man is 7t did not mnke any difference if he knew what I was going on around him. Today we do not call a man coot! nnipss hp takes interest in his fellow men. Ser-vlce Ser-vlce is the measure of goodness. I Service implies relief of suffering where we find it guarding the highways, high-ways, and thought and deliberation as to why it is norpssary for men to 'gain their livelihood as robbers on life's highway. The church must concern herself with the cause of pain, poverty and distress, as man is Very largely the creature of his environment. en-vironment. The church as a leavening leaven-ing influence In the thought of man is a beautiful theory. It is practically impossible under today s conditions for men to be just, honest and brotherly brother-ly In their relations. The cause is fundamental, therefore the remedy must b fundamental It is said that if the church is to be effective it must line with thp Socialist, movement which is not unanimous for revolution lor evolution, The church needs aid and sympathy of overyone interested and welcome? gladh any criticism Show wherein I we fall, show wherein the church can be of more service to mankind than it is or has been in tho past. Righteousness. Right-eousness. Justice and equity should I distinguish those who call themselves Christian as they come more and more In contact with those without the pale " W J Kerns endorsed the open forum for-um as a good thing, but denounced the church as a capitalist institution and the clergy ns parasites on labor. In support Oi this contention, he de nied that the late Bishop Spalding was a Socialist This was the conclusion con-clusion he arrived at from reading the memorial number of the Christian Socialist. E. A. Battel 1 said the open forum which diminished pulpit autocracv was the most reason could demand of the church, on account of thero being be-ing so many different points of view That was going one better than what the workers got from the Socialist party Battell took exception to Kern's stricture on Bishop Spalding saying that "his position as a revolutionary revo-lutionary socialist was beyond Impeachment Im-peachment by the most critical. Bishop Bish-op Spalding was a fearless advocate of the worker's cause and urged the necessity ne-cessity of industrial as well as political polit-ical organization to insure working flass success In the class struggle. Across the length and breadth of thi land and across the seas, Bishop Spalding has left the worthy record of a clear vlsioned. manly man. |