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life in the armies for the glory of 
empires, he is laying it down in foul 
cattle shambles, putrid mines, sweat- 
shops, unsanitary mills, to support 
the kings of finance in luxury. 
- The common men of today are get- 
‘ting tired of the special privilege 
which allows a Mrs. Gould to com- 
plain that she cannot live on $70,000 
-a year when the average working- 
man’s family of five must live on 
$750 a year. The people are tired of 
the special privilege which allows 
some to build costly dwellings in 
Newport, on the coast of Maine, and 
on parts of our North Shore, when 
7.90 is the average wage per week 
‘ for those who work in the textile 
eyes. 
~ — mobiles, 
~ bought with money derived from the 
whether they are 
goods, iron works, shoe factories, 
clothing factories. 
Christ has a message for modern 
industry and it should open our 
We study the temperance 
question, and speak on temperance. 
Why, then, should we not speak on 
the industrial question? Jesus 
Christ asks today not whether our 
industries are making profits, but 
making men. 
Those who are riding in their auto- 
or sailing their yachts 
narrow margin between man’s wag- 
~ es and his living should be told that 
that money thus obtained is nothing 
léss than robbery. 
-It is sometimes not easy to deliver 
the message alike to rich and poor, 
but social justice demands that the 
~ message be given to both alike. So- 
“cial justice and the 
social Christ 
would say today that flesh bruised 
is not as good as reason convinced. 
It it is wrong to strike a union man, 
it is wrong to strike a non-union 
man, for though he may be on the 
wrong side, he is still a brother work- 
“ing man. 
Railroads want men of integrity, 
still they persist in debauching their 
~. men by running Sunday excursions. 
- Employers want good honest work- 
~~ ingmen, but it is about time they set 
a good example, if they expect their 
men to be of high integrity. The 
Sunday golf-playing and the automo- 
biling when they should be in the 
~~ pew glorifying God is a poor observ- 
_ance of the Sabbath. 
-men today want the support of the 
~ churches, they should 
If the working 
attend the 
services, and not go off on Sunday 
excursions. How can churches up- 
‘hold their cause, if they do not at- 
‘tend their services? 
- ministers today who are interested 
There are many 
in the rich and in the poor, but 
many of them are cramped in their 
work because men do not rally to 
the work of the churches. 
C—Religion and the Goal. 
What part does religion play in 
achieving the goal of modern indus- 
try? In order to have more educa- 
tion, better forms of organization, 
and social justice there must be a 
high sense of honor and a clean char- 
acter. Whence do these come? They 
come from Jesus Christ and His re- 
ligion. No man ean be a good man 
unless he has Christ. No man can 
be trusted to serve his fellowmen or 
take a responsible position in indus- 
trial life unless he is a Christian. 
Iiuman life grows great only as the 
feeble years of human existence 
stand out against the background of 
eternity and the life is directed to- 
wards the Kingdom of God. Jesus 
Christ alone can uplift society and 
_sanctify human existence. God grant 
that men in the industrial life, in 
business life, in social, may enter in- 
.to the life of God, and look to Him 
for strength, that when they meet 
the stress of life and the difficulties 
they can meet them in the strength 
of God. We cannot expect progress 
without God. Brotherhood is nothing 
but a beautiful dream unless men will 
accept Jesus Christ and base their 
doctrines of brotherhood on the fact 
of the Fatherhood of God. 
It is time men realized what God 
ean do for industrial, business and 
social life. When the workingman 
and his employer can truly pray, 
‘Thy Kingdom Come’, then their 
whole life of work will be a prayer, 
a glorious prayer towards bringing 
in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. God 
help you and me to so live and at 
last to so die that the Kingdom may 
come and that Jesus may be glori- 
fied. 
The Impersonal Newspaper. 
‘‘Never once in my political 
career’’, said Gov. Dix of New York 
at a meeting of the Associated Dai- 
lies Tuesday, ‘‘Have I been ¢ on- 
sciously misrepresented by a single 
newspaper’’. The majority of able 
politicans we imagine would say 
much the same thing. . 
To the newspaper man criticism is 
a part of the day’s work. It is a 
part of his contract with the public. 
They read his sheet, not merely to 
see what has happened, but to see 
what intelligent men think about 
those happenings. In 99 cases out 
of 100, there is not the least ill will 
behind this expression of ovinion 
made to supply a public need. 
But when the politician picks up 
a paper and feels some rapier point 
tickling his fifth rib, he often thinks 
he sees some personal spite or re- 
venge or ambition. Sometimes he 
invites the editor out to dinner, im- 
agining that a distended stomach 
will alter his views of politics. An- 
other kind of man will take pains to 
send for the reporter of ihe rival 
paper the next time he has a scoop. 
And yet the politician’s next door 
neighbor, with whom he walks down 
street so jovially, may say in his 
heart or in private the same words 
of criticism whose sting in the news- 
paper is so keenly fesented. There 
is where our trade differs from the 
rest of the world. The newspaper 
man’s heart becomes an open book, 
while other people can play the 
game of life with lips sealed. 
Politicians and newspaper work- 
ers who have been long in the game 
learn to give and take and smile af- 
ter it is all over. Thus it is among 
the veterans of Congress, among 
lawyers, and all whose work brings 
them constantly into antagonism.: 
Too good a memory is not a business 
proposition, and it takes lots of fun 
out of life. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Abbott of 
Boston and Manchester are stop- 
ping off in Washington on their 
way home from the south as the 
guests of Mrs. Francis B. Crownin- 
shield of Boston and Marblehead 
and the latter’s father, Senator Du 
Pont. 
The condition yesterday — of 
George Lee Peabody of Boston, a pa- 
tient at the Jo|hns Hopkins hospital, 
Baltimore “was reported very criti- 
eal. <A third operation was pending. 
He has been exceedingly weak since 
a second operation. This is sad news 
to his numerous Boston and North 
Shore friends, also those of his fian- 
cee, Miss Edith Deacon of Boston and 
Newport. 
The rude, vulgar and often mali- 
cious pictures put forth in the guise 
of wit and earicature through the 
daily and Sunday press, are destroy- 
ing the artistic sense, if not the 
kindly instincts, of a whole genera- 
tion of young people, who are grow- 
ing to maturity looking upon them 
as one of the ordinary incidents of 
life. Carry the abominable things 
out of the house with the tongs. for 
the sake of the children— January 
Farm Journal. 
The hum of industry bears no re- 
lation whatever to the ho-hum of 
the lazy man. 
A loose board too often squeaks 
loudly of loose methods. 
