CHURCH AND LABOUR.
TO THK EDITOH. Sir,—Every now a.nd then the churches make spasmodic attempts to conciliate the working classes in a patronising manner. All such efforts fail, and the breach between the churches and the masses widens day by day. This will always be so until the churches cease to be the servants of Mammon a.nd preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, not crucified but risen, and apply his moral principles to social problems. At the Methodist Social Service Union 'last week the Rev BLa mi res spoke of the fear of unemployment and destitution in old age, while Mr Isitt described the inhuman conditions that the poor of Great Britain live in._ Yet Mr Isitt can only find that "racing bets and beer" are the only evils in a world fuill of far greater evils. Not one. word bos he to say about the oa.use of all evilsland monopoly—or of the remedy—the single tax. Mr Isitt is a politician who does not desire to offend the land monopolists of New Zealand.—l am, etc.. F. W. BURKE. * November 26.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12176, 27 November 1917, Page 4
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