WATERFRONT ADDRESSES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 62, 13 March 1919, Page 6

WATERFRONT ADDRESSES.

CHURCH AND LABOUR. On the waterfront at midday to-day Rev. Jasper Calder gave another of a 6eries of addresses, which deal with ■world problems. His remarks to-day were confined to the subject, "The ' Church's Message to Labour." He began by pointing out that the Church did not mean a email congregation, but meant the whole mass of organised Christians—all those who 'believed in the of Christ. The speaker : made a special plea for what he called "economic equilibrium," and drew a picture of the capitalist and the workman in unison because each was imbued with ' the spirit of Christianity. He submitted s that it would be better for Labour to ' gain adherents to the cause by showing * the sense of it than by bullying and threatening, and looked forward to a , time when the Church and Labour would s be in co-operation. c The Church did not feel itself either * capable or called upon to consider, the * financial side of economic questions, but c was convinced its duty lay in the direction of assisting to brinar stability to the a economc world by showing the" advantages of friendly co-operation. Mr Calder himself thought one step in the right direction would be for church services to be less long, with an opportunity afterwards for discussion. i