SINS OF THE RICH

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21236, 7 August 1934, Page 11

SINS OF THE RICH

; ♦ ; SERMON BY DEAN INGE | (ALL FOR MEN WITH COURAGE J'ROM OUil u>VN L'GRiItISPOjrUEKT.) LONDON, June 28. j Dean Inge, at St. j Mary's, Bryanston square, on Sunday, referred to "the sins of the rich," It was a duty to bring wrongdoing to the light. It was necessary that people should have the courage '. of their convictions, and the test : should be, "Are we prepared to take i the risk of unpopularity in exposing ! scandals and other wrong things?" He continue-}: "There is much > handshaking in the street, and yet - a man whoAis mr." ing his money in , the most discreditable manner is not . put under suspicion until he is pubi licly exposed. 1 "Some Americans complain of the ■ graft and greed, and the appalling wickedness of two or three men. It . is not so much that, but a human i co-operative movement of several i thousands of people. It is a sort - co-operative movement with a ; j limited liability. Hidden Corruption "I am convinced that political remedy will not work. Man cannot be (made moral by parliamentary j legislation.'' ! What was wanted, he asserted, : was a few .;ore John the Baptists, j men who could not be bought or silenced except by murder, men who would be the voice of the conscience of the community. Courage : and disinterestedness were two 1 necessary qualities that ought, to be :• forthcoming in a free people. There was plenty to make them 3 uneasy in their own country. The 1 surface of society was decent and f comely, but how much wickedness 3 and corruption were hidden under 3 the surface? Were they consenting oarties to any or did they i -ay. "S'.ich is the way of th? world"? Was it not their business not only to keep straight themselves. [. but to show up. and try to stop any scandals that came before their a eyes? -| "When the secrets of all hearts Uirc disclosed there will be some

strange surprises. A good many astute persons who have got credit for great reforms will be shown merely to have floated with the tide '. —a feat which any dead dog could perform. The real vork will be ' found to have been done by various , obscure, honest men who have gone | through life with a too-stl.* back for , their own interests, and who have always thrown Iheir full weight j into the right scale. Unless our ; country can produce an adequate [ number of men and women who . will put God first, their, country . second, their class third, and them- , selves last, we shall lcre l:berI Dean Trr~ r p« r ■ we . desrrve to !■ • !"• ;■ ' ; NOT ALL OF THEM. Minsons do not get all the dinner ■r,ct sales. There are j;'occl invipV v:\\« buy beioi'u they iiml mil i.lu- n'l's'.anrli ilii; value ami .ureal choice in iMin.-vii* ■■ dinner sei.s. I