THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL QUESTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15141, 4 November 1912, Page 8

THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL QUESTIONS.

LIVING IN A NEW WORLD, j The attitude of the. Church toward WOT questions was discussed at the' corfrtßg^ of the Congregational Union in last week. The Rev. , Dr. that recent legislation in England benefit of the workers showed ' tiWs?l|| were living in a new wor)d 2 and tjuit'j|l| old doctrine of-laissez-faire was now recognised ' that hwnaa $j§j§f§ were'not mere. "hands," and/that Soman relations were to be regulated weights and measures than thosV#|wj| warehouse. They were not i instant to refuse a. place "m • to a, man simply because;; wealthy, but which of them daj« i»*|f|| these mammoths of the *M'*'!^^^j| J represented methods which y&bffijjQfflSm with th© Christian ethic " in Australia is. without qc«*ti%..aapf7gs perplexing one," ho continued.;'.- r .is a growing danger of our being W|Wss| to submit to the tyranny of an l»-y' instructed crowd, dominated by <3aß'fi*|S seiotifiu&ss, and having no mutual concessions which social relations tolerable; or * V The wise Christian course ' seems removed from both these wise course is still the common ra*«». Anj\ how, we may lay it down as mental principle for the pastorate of W, Christian Church nob to ' break witf> M | common people. We may often ntmM,"l follow thorn. We may criticise ;>s9p and, if permitted to do so, mayjgjl and seek to persuade them,, but W *Jp| touch with them-ne'ver! It :, ?.g|S| thing mider the sun for i«iJMB power to be abused. And, \ ttank o*i,, theTe is never wanting among the »"W' people a large number of just as capable, 01 forming a J u^ g Sl|| a moral issue as in the social strata #»«■„ them." :.J{'lWM> . .' .'■-i'.flJ-SisM