CHURCH AND THE WORKER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 137, 2 August 1911, Page 7

CHURCH AND THE WORKER.

The Dean of Newcastle (Dr. Golding iiirdj, preacnmg at tue iNowcastlo (jatlieclrui, rolorreu to tiie unuicii's aiu.y towards tnc masses ju Lueir cnucavoms to improve industrial conditions. ciociui unrest was to-day spreatlmg tiirougnout Liie civilised woncl. j ut) cause, was probably tue evolution orougnt n>y education. -Literature —good’, bad, or indifferent—was now lead oy everybody. Aten of all classes Jiad begun to taiuk for tiismselves. Anm.ig tne labouring cfasses, men, assuming greater knowledge and intelligence, became leaders, occasionally developing into tnat most pernicious being, tue paid agitator, lint lucre was also a silent, steady movement from below, 'thinking men realised 'the inconsistencies of our civilisation—the hideous, poverty on tue one nand, and the equally hideous extravagant luxury on the other. It was on these silent, thinking men that much of the future depended. They had grasped the fact chat in organisation lay strength. There was a danger, however, that unguided, untaught organised industrialism might become an imperial danger. The Gnurch alone could provide tne remedy by making the worker feel that it wanted to know and understand ms dillicnltios and aspirations. 11 the iJixurcli stood idly ny sue was refusing her greatest oppoiumity, and was unwortny that opportunity. it was olten said the average wonting man considered the average parson an individual too lazy to earn ms living in an apparently moie arduous employment. • ■ VVhatever ho might think or tne parson, the average man nad deep in his heart the religious instinct. If the Church could get at that siio would solve half the problems of to-day. It could bo got at, but in order to do so the uimrcii should have an horizon beyond teameetings. - i