LABOUR AND CHRISTIANITY.
.-. WHAT .WILL;CROOKS SAW* V f Mr. .Will Crooks ;has brought; back!-"-from-his colonial tour some awkward! \ facts for*th6sG.,who think: the' ,Labour ; party is. "godless" ,v. or anti-Christian. . "Wherever wo went," said Mr. to a""Ohristian World" ■; "vte found a welcome .waiting for"-us ' from Labour men,'-Trade Congresses, - and Free Church Councils'. The ideaj. that Labour- and the churches do nofc|': '.run. well together in the colonies is ay, mistaken, one." In • Quebec he found that .several secretaries of' Free Churchy: Councils were .present,-,as. delegates.* tot: tke : L'abbur Congress, v At-Toronto most: of his meetings were organised jointly,. by r .the Free Churches .aud,.the-Labpiirj'. pai-iy. At Sydney, where -Labournba? V ;tie§n};repfesented' to' he>tlstrpngly l 'SntiH's. ■religious, the' party joined"heartily' iiir'' a meeting in-the Central Mission. Mr.j Crooks himself did much .to help, along '■ the mutual friendship." One '-meeting. of.Labourlraen grumbled because he had! ■ to leave , for. a imis'sionwhereupon Mr." Crooks lectured themett -.' on the, folly ..of working against: theii . friends in the- churches, and eventually; had tho pleasure of seeing numbers 'of j his audience crowding into .the' missiaß>' hall. • . ■. .*
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 9
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