UNION OF CHRISTIANS
INDUSTRIAL FELLOWSHIP
TO APPLY PRINCIPLES OF JESUS IN DAILY LIFE.
MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA
By Telegraph.— Assn. —Copyright. (Received October 25, 5.5 p.m.)
SYDNEY, October 25. The Australian Industrial Christian Fe’.lowshio, constituted on lines similar to the industrial Fellowship already established in England, was inaugurated yesterday, with Air A. C. Willie, president of the executive of the Labour Party, as first president. The objective of the new' bedy is stated to be the application of the precepts and practice of Jesus Christ to politics, industry, and social life, and the same ethics for the homo, tho workshop, the party, the congregation, the nation, and tho community of nations. It aims at uniting all Christians, believing that justice and love should be the controllin • motives in all social change. It is proposed to organise Christian Socialists, Labour supporters, and church people in a mutual fellowship. The officers elected comprised representatives of the State Assembly and aIL religious denominations.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11660, 26 October 1923, Page 6
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