SOCIALISM

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 7

SOCIALISM

CHURCH CONGRESS DISCUSSION. VIEWS OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON, ;....■■-' "AJOLLt MESS OF .IT." ..; : (By AsaoclaUon-Copyrljhl.) - .'•■.- ,' ■ :.:■■ .'•■ '■ .'.■ London, Octpber, B,' ■At tho, Anglican ''. Church '"-' Congress now, -sitting.- .of.:- Swansea, Dr. : Arthur 'Shadwoll stated that there was' much iri'.tho, jumbloof ideas labelled. . "Socialism?, which appealed to the Christian. Ho was, however, surprised at many clergymen sj readily ; accepting a theory based on moneytho "have note , ,' wanting other people's goods. No faotor,; , he" had so, little to dri with, happinbs3 as economic ■■ conditions. • Socialism fanned .cupidity, en.Ty.and hatred." ■ .'_The';Rov.: John Wakeford,' 6f ; Liverpoolj- 'on--Bidered;:that.Socialism was tho ally of Christ tianity. : ;He favburod. nationalisation of the land,- minerals.y and railways. '•'.. , ' ■ '. "■ ; The.Bishop of London (Dr. -Winnington Ingram) declared that he shared the Socialists' .discontent.in things as they ■ are.' There was , nothing' unchristian in the. common ow.hership;ot and the .means.'of product! in, but a movo in. that direction would; make a f'jplly mess of .it." Socialism 6et class against: class. 'Drink a,rid gambling: were'the chief causes ;'of':misery.- '■■■' ;: :"■ ■ :■ •.■.." \ Bishop': , (Dean of Manchester),'aid that though/the first Christians were. Social-' ista'it was'volnntaryiSocialism. 'There was :io-' thing wrong iri'Socialisra, but it was materialistic,;;and .appealed to tho worst "*lemonts; of .huraan nature.',: '.'. ,

,; Dr;' Shadwell is,a : well-known authority on industrial'inestlons.: His publications include . Indnstnal .Efficiency,"' and', books .oh the liquor problem... , 'Ho spoke- at the Pan-Aneli-can Congreks^on-tne-housing, question. - - !, The/Bishop: of: London con: spook from eimnsive; .personal■.;experience . as'-: regards- the' lifo.Of the.working.classes in London. .As head of House. Bsthnat' Green, ho prea.clied and■■; argued with "Secularists every Sundav afternoon .in -Victoria Park;' and ■ both as Bishop'; of .'.Stepney, nnd Bishop: of London he had done", a^ great jwof.k among the ,poor. ' :■■ Bishop '.Welldon , woe .formerly headmaster ?f.Harrow,; and;. Bisho- of. Calcutta, resigning the'latter position'owing to ill-health. Hewns appointed-Dean.;of Manchester in 1906. >He -.interest in social questions. .'. He visited , New Zealand, a few .years nso ■' "• Dγ Welldon;.;in; speaking of the first: Christians! .refers to ! the .statement m the Book of • Acts that said any of • thorn.'that -ought of ™ iWjT'VM; possessed, was, his own; nut. they.;:hart■<all:,»things., common." .■.•Commenting ;on" this; passage,- the. Kev. J. C. Lami hart," in "Hashngs's Dictionary of tho Biblo" states;:, '.Community. of.Roods ;w»s a.marked' featnro 'of?the.-Chr.iatianitj-; of, tho ifirst:dnys It.owed..its .orifjiri.riot only: to, the unselfish enthusiasm '.-of' that; Pentecostal periodj- and the-expootation of tho-ILbrd's 'immediaterreturn, but also;to the actual needs of the pooreiChristians, at .Jerusalem, , ~ Were cut ; dff from the >. nleflris. of .self-support by the social ostracism'attendant on excommunication' fro'nii the■.'synagbeue'."":'."-■;■'■':.■■ ■:■:'./ • •','., . ,-.■,.-' ..In'Shtiirday'siissnq.'.wo published the views of.Vthe -Bishop, of' Aii"klnjid' (Dr.: Neligan) on tho'nttitude. of: tfie Church 'as regards!';eoc<a jrpblema.-/-li:-^;' , :■ ■.;-"v-!.->\ t '■■*■■■'■ • ' •■■■.:■ ■•."• >■ •■•.