THE PREVALENT UNREST IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE INNER LIFE OF MAN.

North Otago Times, 7 August 1912, Page 1

THE PREVALENT UNREST IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE INNER LIFE OF MAN.

To >ite Editor.

Sir—ln the movement set on foe-', to ascertain the grounds of tfci present' unrest) and the general in subordination in the industrial world, called by some' the growing pains of 'democracy, I have tot noted'tat any ol the gre>t political, totes d thought consider it a' factor in the trouble, the ■ restrictions impoKd against religious teaching to llta youngin all the seats of learning in order to develop and strengthen the spiritual side of their Wing. Tte blessings .secured by the Reformation should he treasured, a s to all nppearance secular education only lias been leng enough to the foreground, The authority of Scripture as the first rule of faith has alnost entirely disappeared under the process of modern criticism, The beginning of that movement dates from Colenso's day. It comes to this, that everything in; tlra Bible must be tested by humaji •ecsperionoa and thought. The class interested in tt>3 redemption of the world, and in the way of practical sympathy with our position, and in emphasising our appeal to the 'human soul for the final apologetic and justification of r#g'ion will keep an eye on what is to happen this-year. The conference of the social unions in Derbyshire wiill hrijng together # detiomiinlvtions, from the Roman Catholics to the Qualvers. If is along this line of social service that they expect the closer union ol religious bodies, develop social service, and act together not merely as a religious duty, hut.as the proper and inevitable expression of the religious, life in man. T-hisJ dtaiiSßons will prouauly chiefly circle, round the 'great and Btrcfflg. Btatement, that the fowJaJtans of religion are in the reason and conscience and fcabt of man. But the believer must have Jesus, the Light of the World, in his proper place.—l am, etc., J. GAEROW,