A BIG TASK.

Mataura Ensign, 2 November 1911, Page 7

A BIG TASK.

—— * —— MILLIONAIRES AND RELICION. PIERPONT MORGAN'S SCHEME. The New York 'Sun' announces that a new reh-ious movement financed by Mr Pierpont Morgan and a score or lesser-known millionaires has been launched with the object of reformW Political business morals of the United States. A significant feature of the movement will be the entire elimination from ius councils of the feminine element. "Women are not to be allowed to preach or take any part in the campaign, ' observed Mr Frederick B bmith, the captain-general of the army of American missionaries. The departure, of 500 ministers of the new religion was sped at a great banquet held under the presidency of Mr James G. Cannon, the head of the Fourth National Bank. Mr Smith describes the protagonists of the movement as being insurgents in religion, and says that they are going to do what progressives in politics are trying to do. "The deep general corruption exposed in this country during the last 10 years," he observes, "can only be curedl by religion. Among high' and low there exists the gravest concern as to where wo are going. There is scandal everywhere. "Bankers and politicians have been shown to be dishonest and immoral. You can buy United States senators in Illinois like sheep on a ranch. The best men all over the country are anxious to coroperate to do something to raise us from the slough into which we Slave fallen, but all efforts will be useless until we employ a dynamic force that is rooted in religion." According to the plans of the financiers organising the progressive religious movement, thirty missionaries wfll be divided into teams of 10 me,n who will hold eight-day revivals in 76 'cities of the United States. In each of these places they will canvass the churches, business houses, shops and factories in order to enlist workers, who must arrange similar revivals in all the surrounding towns and villages New York's revival was to begin oii October In explaining why women will not be allowed to be recruited in New York Mr Smith exclaimed: "There is no truth in this sentimental gush about woman's influence on man. You must send a real man after his fellowmen if you wish them reformed. The work we have to do is men's work, and there will not be a hint of women in all this vast campaign."