THE CHURCH AND DEMOCRACY

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13341, 1 April 1911, Page 5

THE CHURCH AND DEMOCRACY

. ; ja ' . WHOLESOME. .REPROOF.. T'T” — 'V.- 1 .' r~y2 -The Church and Its‘Pandering to! Wealthj, If.'-'- :■ ■• -a *■■■'. ■ to ('.I- .~1 ■ - ''i.hii; , An Outspoken Clergyman. l&ress pA iimjEeceivMprir i. 9.lspTm| ,IJ -'' ' CJmwrence/'tho JUj I* ■! In' Itl il'*lm W mill n i .snineis m the but hs, ,*jnlu re “elegant pagans” roiaroiigoiiloii Spnday moniingi, bridge on sSun&ay mgK's!‘aricT’oii the other six days, rears to worship at the purine.of- the goddess of “Gelting-on.” The “Sllufclr arid’ the Democracy were at cross purposes. Was it any wonder that working men associated- the Church with wealth and privilege, when it. was officered bv men prominent in rings and combines, and led by men who talked about starving the workers into submission. No wonder they reproached the Church which acquiesced in the system which made one class unwholesome! y rich, and doomed to the opposite class to a lifelong struggle against: conditions which sapped their physique, blunted their moral sense, and embittered their souls.