CHURCH OF CHRIST.
Mr. D. M'LaTen, M.P., addressed members of the Church of Christ yesterday on '"The Moral Standard) oi Trade and Humanity." He began by pointing out the danger of endeavouring to guide one's life by two different standards of ethics. All moral teachers, including- Jesus of Nazareth, condemned the hypocrisy of formalism, which provided one standard of ethics for Sunday use, and another for everyday business. All the great religions of mankind had recognised the importance of the social factor of any moral standard accepted. Moses had aimed at securing the common good, of the> people in the code of laws which he presented, while the doctrine of Jesus Christ was essentially that of human sympathy. When he considered the conditions under which the masses lived in many lands to-day continued Mr. M'Laireji, he held it to be pure mockery to speak of individualism in trade and commerce as the guardian., of civil or personal liberty. The problem facing society was the fact that the moral standard of self-interest in business would not square with the Christian doctrine of love. All the same it was a ca.use for rejoicing to realise that the humanist standard was that which was winning.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 9, 11 July 1910, Page 2
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202CHURCH OF CHRIST. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 9, 11 July 1910, Page 2
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