. NORTH, SHORE-BREEZE 
“The Christ of Today and Goal of Modern Industry” 
‘Touched 0 
Last Sunday morning at the Bap- 
Manchester Pastor 
tist Church, Manchester, the pastor, 
ipey, 1. Li: 
in his series of Labor Sermons. This 
great truths presented 
on previous occasions. “It 
seem that this community, at least, 
should be the better for thus having 
had these truths brought home to 
them. The text was found in Matt. 
6:10. ‘*Thy Kingdom Come’’. The 
pastor said in part: 
A man is not fully saved himself: 
unless he is interested in the salva- : 
tion of others, unless he is interested: 
in seeing the redemption of society 
as well as the redemption of his own 
individual soul. We must place be- 
fore our own selfish interests, the 
Kingdom of God, and the rightous- 
ness of that kingdom. Jesus praved : 
‘Thy kingdom come’, and he also 
said: ‘Seek ye first” the*kingdom of 
God and its rightousness, and all 
these things shall 
you’. 
We have been considering the so- 
cia! Christ and the present industrial ~ 
questions. Having spoken~on” the 
Christ of today and the Employee, 
The Christ of Today and the Em-‘ 
plovers, we will consider today The 
Christ of Today 
Modern Industry. 
what the goal is; 
that goal; third, 
voal., 
second, steps to 
religion and the 
A—The Goal Stated. 
Jesus Christ surveys the industrial 
yorld today from above. He sees 
all the different positions and parts 
of industrial problems. 
stands all difficulties and knows the’ 
solution of all problems. The reason 
why the industrial question is a 
threatening one is not so much be- 
ce_use the present system itself is 
evil but because men are evil. Men as 
they enter industry make it’ evil, be- 
cause of the selfishness of the heart. 
Thre goal of modern industry’ 1s, ‘ac- 
cording to Christ, the Kingdom of -* 
God. 
The words Kingdom of God con" 
vey very little meaning to the minds 
of the many. What is this Kingdom 
of God? It is that perfect order of 
things in which those of every nation’ 
who believe in Christ are gathered 
together into one society 
and intimately united to 
made 
God and 
Frost delivered the last *» 
“God and to each other. 
be added unto © 
“changed 
and the Goal of:- 
We will first see” 
He under: ‘ 
“to the commissary-general, 
dedicated ° 
partakers of eternal salvatiom” “Tess! 
Jesus started this kingdom on earth, 
oa. Industural Question in Sermon Last Sunday Morning. 
wilt the nedom: cannot be Pally 
“eompleted until.he’ Gomes again. A 
Shorter ‘definition of the Kingdom of 
~ Géd is this: That condition of things 
was a general summing up of the ** 
so forcibly © 
would » 
when all men are in right relation to 
In spite of 
tLe many evils today, the Kingdom 
of God is nearer now than when Jes- 
us was here. The Kingdom of God, 
not the church, is the goal of modern 
industry. 
B—Steps to the Goal. 
1. Kdueation. -Eduecation is one 
‘of the keys to a larger freedom to 
the Kingdom of God. ‘The working- 
men needs more education in the 
special crafts and in the general field 
of economies and sociology. Every 
boy intending to enter the field of 
modern industry should be develop- 
ed in the line of craft he intends to 
follow. Education makes new men. 
New men always make for them- 
selves new institutions. 
When Jesus started out to found 
the Kingdom of God, He said: 
‘repent’. That méant the first step 
in the life of a better:man. Repen- 
‘tance means a changed mind, and a 
mind » means” 
hfé)-and a bette man. - : 
If education is necessary for the 
workingman, it is absolutely neces- 
sary for ‘the employer or the captain 
of industry. An employer may not 
be: able’ to” see every individual 
workingman in his’ establishment, 
«but he:should understand the gener- 
‘ak condition 6f' the men in his em- 
ploy. The efficiency of the army de- 
pends on the efficiency of the man 
in the ranks. “The-blame for under- 
feeding the soldiers is traced back 
and ul- 
timately ‘to the government. ‘The 
“generals who have gained undying 
fame are those who-knew the real 
conditions of the men in the ranks. 
‘The cause of much of the industrial 
trouble today is that men having 
charge of the labor do no understand 
the conditions‘ of the: laboring man. 
2. Organization and Co-operation. 
I know there ‘ire some who do not 
believe ti ‘organization for the 
“workingman, but believe in organiz- 
atton of ‘capital. Organization is just 
“as essential today: for the working- 
‘ian a8 for the ¢apitalist. To do away ° 
with labor unions would be simply 
to sink back to sterile individualism 
where there would be extreme weak- 
What the laboring men need 
is more organization-and. ‘better or- 
a changed . 
ganization. The organization of to: 
day should be a step to the co- BELA: 
tion of tomorrow. 
In 1906 railroad employees - _re- 
ceived an increase in wages amount- 
ing to $100,000,000. What did.they 
do with this money ? Some of them 
spent :it foolishly, when it should 
have been used in establishing new 
industries managed by workingmen, 
and owned by workingmen. There 
are in this country two million mem- 
bers of trade unions. If these men 
paid one tenth of their wages for 
one year toward forming new indus- 
tries, managed by workingmen, the 
result of such a movement in the 
course of twenty-five years would 
be beyond all mathematical peta 
tation. 
3. Co-operation between inpiots 
er and Employee. The employers 
of today are loudly clamoring for 
their men to take a greater interest 
in the firms for which they work. 
How can they? How can the em- 
ployers expect them to do this? The 
work is not their work. They de not 
own any part of the business. Christ 
tells of the great difference between a 
shepard who is an owner and a hire- 
ling shepard. When the wolf comes, 
‘the hireling flees because he. is a 
hireling and | eareth not for _.the 
sheep’. The good shepard. stands 
his ground and if necessary lays 
down his life for the sheep, because 
they are his own. The great ten- 
dency today in modern industry is to 
make hirelings and not men, cand - 
we need men. 
Where profit sharing eats men 
take more interest in their work. 
They are more careful. There is less 
waste, and the amount paid out in 
the bonus to the workingmen is over 
balanced by the amount saved, and 
the workingmen and workingwomen 
have gained in efficiency and in man- 
hood and womanhood. A man’s 
work is more than a means to fill 
his stomach. It is a means, or should 
be a means, to self-expression and 
self-realization. So, then, let us 
pray for the day when a better fel- 
lowship shall exist between the cap- 
tain of industry and the men in the 
ranks. ; sitot : 
4. Social Justice. The common 
man. today is questioning whether or 
not democracy has not handed him a 
gold brick. Instead of having kings 
on the throne, he has kings of fin- 
ance. Instead of laying down his 
