DUTY OF CHRISTIANS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 276, 10 November 1911, Page 3

DUTY OF CHRISTIANS.

; OR. GORE ON LABOUR I N REST I A STRIKING LETTER. I Writing under date September 22. ;!he London correspondent of the I "Lyttelton Times’’ says that Dr. j i Lire, who in the last ten years has | been Bisho;) of Worcester, then ot I Birmingham, and now of Oxford. I has written an intensely inter jesting letter of far.-well to the i.-b.-rgy and city of the Birmingham i Diocese. Dr. Gore dwells upon tne [ imr-.'st in the labour world, and his I re-narks cannot fail to interest the ■ <> i;;l i-i-fonm-rs of a piozret -dv < ! oiintry like New Zealand. He says I here is one fp< cial sense of failure .vliich weighs upon him and which le cannot keep to himself. "I feel.' ie cmitim-.es, "that among the ob ii-ets which I most seriously set be- | Tore myself tin; there ir. no one m i vliich I have failed more signally i than in stirring among churchmen m j general a sense of their duty to c-m I tribute to the so-.-i.al ami industrial 1 n-eonstruction of the nation. There I s a profound sense of unrest ano ' t: •-at’.--fact ion among tin- woikeis. I Recently society has been deeply ilarmed a* its symptoms. I cannot j but believe that this profound dis i -ontent is justified, though some pari ic-.dar exhibitions of it are not. The I longer I have lived in this great inI lustrial centre the more I Lave felt I hat. as Christians, we are not jusI ified in tolerating the conditions oi ■ ife and labour under which a vast ; mass of our population is living. | “We have no right to say that i h'---c conditions* are not remediable. 1 i”d that we l ave no right to expect ’hat they will be remedied until i i hlistian hearts and Christian heads j -nerget iciiJly demand and insist that i h« y shall be altered. Social ‘■i-ier.e" s will help us to avoid mistakes : but ; >nlv the real love of man can givi [ he needed impulse to effective re- ; 'o- n>. Th" preventible lack of | -quipment for life among the young, i wd Liter the insecurity of employ i neat, and inadequacy of remunera-j-ion and consequent destitution, in I ;cmi d-’st it ut ion. among so many o' I -ur people, ought to inspire in all I ; ’hrist ians a piofound and passionI at" determination to devote them i selves to the reform of our industrial ;s-.ysiem. 1 cannot but pray from my i heart that my s.m-cessor may lie eni abled to bring home to churi-hmep I generally a deepci' sens" of social I -ibliirat ions.