CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM.
Questions to Put to An Sir-Socialist Clergymen and Ministers.
If St. Basil said: "Tho rich man it a thief?" If St. Chrysostoom said: "The rich! are robbers; better all things in com* mon?" If St. Clement said: "Iniquity alona lias created private property?" If St. Paul said: "If any will not work, neither let him eat?" If St. Ambrose said: "It is the bread of the hungry thou keenest; it ia the clothing of the naked thou lockest up; the money thou hast buried is the redemption of tho poor?" If St. Ambrose said: "Nature created community; private property 9 tho offspring of usurpation;"' If Isaiah said: "Woe unto them tliati join house to hou.se and lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may bo placed alone in tho midst of the earth ?" If Jerome said: "Opulence is ajways tlie product, of theft committed, if not by tho uctiml possessor, then by his ancestors?"
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 66, 14 June 1912, Page 5
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161CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 66, 14 June 1912, Page 5
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