THE CHURCH AND DEMOCRACY
AT CROSS PURPOSES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, April 1, Addressing the Baptist Conference the Rev. Mr. Collins declared that they did not find the worst sinners in the slums, but in the suburbs, where elegant pagans played golf on Sunday mornings and bridge on Sunday nights. The other six days they rode in motor-cars to worship at the shrine of the ''Goddess of Getting On." The church and democracy were at cross purposes, and was it any wonder that working men associated the church with wealth and privilege. It was officered by men prominent in rings and combines, and led by men who talked starving workers into submission. No wonder they reproached a church which acquiesced in a system which made one class unwholesomely rieh and doomed the opposite class to a lifelong struggle against conditions which sapped physique, blunted the moral sense, and embittered the. soul.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 268, 3 April 1911, Page 5
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151THE CHURCH AND DEMOCRACY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 268, 3 April 1911, Page 5
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