RELIGION FOR EVERY DAY
SOCIOLOGIST’S OBSERVATIONS. The notion that the function of religion is to provide a retreat from the world’s harsh conflicts, if it meant anything at all, would imply a selfcontained Christian community dwelling altogether in the catacombs, says Dr William G. Peck, the sociologist. Jn his book, “The Salvation of Modern Man.” That is a theory which is at present strangling the life of the Church. For it means that the social reality of the Church is to be denied by Christian men when they move in commerce and industry. And it means that Christians who profess the Christian truth about man when they recite the Church’s creeds, shall forget that truth when they have to deal with men in the world. They will see men as masters, workmen, customers, producers, consumers, competitors, and will act toward them in those capacities according to the technique necessitated by the laws of the secular system. But if ever they should chance to perceive these men as the potential shrines of the All Holy, the Christian revolution would have begun.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 9
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180RELIGION FOR EVERY DAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 9
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