LABOUR AND THE CHURCHES.
(To the Editor.) 1 Sir, —I would urgently recommend Mr. ■ F. G. Ewington to read Joseph McCabe's '"The Church and the People," recently ■' published, which is an historical account, ' md a terrible indictment of the Christian ' Church c behaviour towards the workers ' since the dawn of Christianity. As the ' author says in hia preface, "The book is ' an attempt to determine how much, or ' how little, the workers owe to the Church." And in a footnote to the preface he says, "Since mv work was written the Church of England has issued the report of its Committee of Inquiry on 'Christianity and Industrial Problems.' It is an appalling plea of 'Guilty' to the chiirßes I make in this book. . . . It mnkos the terrible confession, 'We have allowed avarice and selfishness and grinding competition to work havoc over the broad spaces of human life.'" —I am, etc., I. HOPKINS, Epsom.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 250, 21 October 1919, Page 10
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