PAGE FOUR See Windows | For Special Prices On Men's Suits y-- Suits Boys' Overcoats | ® Underwood Typewriters Still the acknowletiged leader. "There's Ask us to show buying. : . J. R. C. Dobbs & Co. Tel. 819 41 Clarence gt, a Reason" you before HAS A CHURCH i | I |The City of Witipeg Be Begins the Unique Experiicat. REV. S.C. BLAND WRITES AS OLD CLASS. {| CLASS CONSCIOUS NESS AS A PRIVILE Churches Have Not Kept Pace With Their Denominations--- Leading New ideas Need a Favorable and | Fostering Environment--Dangers | "> Bete New Church. | By Rev. i Tribune. } The Labour Church has at lea jmade a good start in Winnipeg. Be ; gun July 8, 1918, it has been in exist- jence only a little more than a year i and during that period has struggled | under considerable difficulties in the way of securing a meeting place. strike, however--and this is a unique | led to a| and deeply significant fact- | great expansion, It consists now the Central Church, meeting in | Columbia Theatre, and eight branches, | St. James, West Kildonan, Wes Fort Rouge, Norwood, Elmwood, | Morse Place and inscona. It | regularly organized. The member- | ship is 1000, Every Sunday there is an estimated attendance of between 2,000 and 2,500. When a mass meeting is called Labor Church s no difficulty in fill: ing the great hall of the Indus Bureau, which is estimated to some 4,000. Similar churches ha been organized in Brandon, Saskatoon and Calgary. No formal constitution has yet been adopted, nor any creed. All are welcomed into it who seek the stablishment on the earth of an era of justice, truth and love. It has a secretary and an organizer who-are-éxpeeted-to-give their-whole time to the work. 6 es are being held for training speakers and Sunday are in contemplation. Has the Labor Church a future? Some will say its distinctive cla character makes. this unlikely. A great deal is being. said today in cotfidemnation of a eclads copseciousness on'the part of Iabor as though it were, a new thing on the face of the earth? of schools Class Consciousness. The fact is, class consciousness is as as a privileged class, A privileged is always intensely and fanati- cally self-conscious. Formerly it was a class of nobles or landowners who lived by the labor of their slaves, serfs, or tenants. Today, in countries free from feudalism, it is the class roughly made of financiers, employers afl well-to-do, with those immedi- ately dependent on them or who ca- ter to them. , There is no class in America so keenly and passionately class-conscious, so sensitive to danger or even, the possibility of danger, so Since the installation of our own Custom Tailoring shop, and Raincoats entirely by Woollens. secure your choice. I ¥ Jd 4 - FOR LABORER Dr. S. G. Bland 1 in Winnipeg | * The | the ! ton, | is | the | | resolute an {it, so « politically } ing. The clas assimilating power of this feeling is enormous. With rare! ) ceptions 48 S00n as a man becomes { ness of his clas from the iate i | 8 | but, as I said, { ceptions, the | seems to y" | The capit: alist popular term is a comparison, is a Many ~wage-earne usually the most competent, have no interest in | this class. Their ambition is fixed on emerging from it. A vast number {have no | class-consciousness beyond | the desire, not always very active for { a better wage. It is only a fraction! that is rea class-consci and interested selfishly or altruistically in the rise of the wage-earmers as a ¥ with this fraction the! snessrinstohd of uniting . There the i almost . unbridgable, gulf between - the 'thorough-going and radical Socialists (again of widely | different views but contemptuous of ameliorations) ant the Trades Union- ist who hitherto has had place in his policy: for nothing else. In addition; in Winnipeg and the West, all now see i a new cleavage even in Trades Union- ists between the conservative inter- { nationalists and the mc radical | advocates of One Big Union. nce crowd 18 If Working Class Become Infected. It is difficult to imagine how any employer or banker can keep his face hen he speaks of the danger working-c becoming infect- ith a class-consciousness. Let him { first ¢om > the class-conseiousness | of the pr ariat even of, Winnipeg | to-day where it may be supposed to be 1 | peculiarly acut 1 that, for exa ple, of the Canadian Manufacturers association, No defence is here intended of class- consciousness. It is deplorable and must pass away. But the class-conse- iousness of labor is certainly no more dangerous than the other; it was not the first; nor is it likely to disappear unless th - does alsa. Inten lous, the in as elsewhere, \ itable that the churches attended lominated by that class w ill be 'decply colored by it These churcl ;anada are the great Protesta 5s does not then, as Canada 18 upper mean that the yeast revolution is not working these churches. it is, and ever and especially among A little pamphlet pub- lished récently v 'the Methodist Board of I ism and Social Ser- vice on "Christian Churches and In- dustrial Conditions," will be a revela- tion to many as to the degree and ex- tent to which radicalism is permeat- ing all the great churches of Britain, the United States and Canada. Whenever, indeed, leaders of these churches meet in national conventions something (can it be other than the Spirit of God?) seems to carry them further than probably most of them thought of going before they met. Churches Have Not Kept Pace. Léading Winnipeg churches have in more strongly the ministers. WEDNI ver, not always } denominations. ' seem immediately centres "of radi | it is in these ct { i to be found natural lea Now nox kel pagan t) ers of ti iurehen: Unless he. is a man of knowledge, deep courage and i tremendc propagandist of even those social doe trines endorsed by his own denomi tion. In the first place, in such a % ell-to- | do church the minister proba i not. meet the poor, perhaps n | | the proletariat, The hardships of the | i underpaid wage-earner, or of the | | bler members of the: salaried the -discontent, the anxieties fears, the deep surging are not forced upon Ris atte ntion. H | daily routine is amongst people prett well Jiisted with the present % picas people, kindly pedple, n| hen bearing possibly not the be st hr among their employees, very | hospitable and likeable and generous as he sees them. He would have to go out of his way to become an "agi- tator." Even if h& brought to such a church a passion for social justice the flame might die out for. lack of | fuel. An occasional sermon or refer- ence will satisfy his conscience. But if, nevertheless, he doés begin to repeat with passion and purpose Christ's great message, change your minds for the new social order is at hand, what wi]l he find? For any thing but the most academic and general discussion an uneasy and frigid reception on the part of some of his congregation. Now, sympathetic men are general- ly sensitive men. It is not Pleasant to Sisturh and estrange peaple who are | ind to one and whom one likes and! respects, and it is not difficult to find | good reasons for not going ve ry far! upan a lonely road. Moreover, while almost any congre- | gation today will tolerate or even ap- | prove occasional sympathetic refer- ences to social reconstruction of a vague character, and probably there are very few Canadian congregations where there is.not a section that will approve even-of bold-and energetic radical issues, there is in many of our well-ta-do churches a section, and of ten Bo y influential section, that w ill eth in the preacher prophetic ness and passion in regard to the injustices and mequalities of our own day. Any persistence in such preach- ing will encounter, not merely Josent ment, but Hostility. There may, be also fear of. division in the church, a very great calamity, especially to a conscientious and sensitive minister, or even to an ambitious one And a eynical devil is alv ear in such cases and whispers, cui bono, why endanger a career why wreck a church, why stir up 'anger and -trouble, and possibly accomp little or nothing ? Still more serious consequence: In some of these well-to-do churches the preacher cannot but be aware that any emphasis on the social gospel may cost 'him his pulpit and involve the loss, not only of a livelihood, a of a great opportunity for useful Under present ITCRA aners, : then, 1 think it must be said that the great are na- d| ations | fr at the 1sh i ganization } church, Lepring ave no. 8 i | pel, if not ac Democracy And Brotherhood Ideas. Now, new are other | oung things. y need a { ble | and fostering environment, like babies and seedlings, There is | GEMOoCTac) and prevail. firmgg), grow mor specifically Ia develop and propagate them ned for other. er Tul 2 ke ail iGeas {ike ail no doubt these ideas of to than in that the new social gospel is : d8 stined to capture all the great churches, and with no expectation or d at the Labor ch should supe » them, I believe the Labor church 1 un ent and spre: fully on t Methodisn last century half century. in the last There need be no anta jealousy. Th ought to All men who desire to see dom of God on the earth s that the I church may { plish its true etion--to spi [the pregent discontent and bring agitation the purifying economic and sustaining passion cond 1 « and the ie Salvation Army nism } Be nor none. 1bor steadying Christianity. Dangers Before New Church. The dangers be 2 the greatest, perhaps, may erowd out the ous. But it helps to lift the strug- gle of the working class on to the plane of a high and pure religious de votion, where, indeed, much of it ready is but not all, it will, it have. a long histor) a great serv forthe hensive, brotherl into whietl re are new that rel the the econo 'whether re ender al kind of church present churches h at last thé true Canadian Deople will find full expre ich it pour its oa energies, with a tide on such as the his of the in Canada has not revealed. Jesus said soul | its | 8810n will tory Ye He had come to nd | fire upon Hy » earth, That is the thin® which our religious life gests at oe sent, but it ill vs be so. A fire not o of love will yet break out and directly and indirectly church may help to kindle i Rev. Salem Goldworth born at Lachute, Quebec, on August | 26th, 1859, son of the late : Henry F. Bland and Emma, daughter of the late Rev. William Levell. Thus he came of Methodist minist i on both sides. He was edu the high se hools of Dundas, K Kingston | and Belleville, then at Morin College | and McGill Universi graduzting ' se sug- not atr d, in Can the al- but a, | or Bland was a Rev then; ISDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, aS 1010. ISAAC 271 Pr ZACKS incess St. LC VALL attra WE HAVE A SPLENDID 8H( THERE'S A nly BARGAIN in 8 you find it Come In And 11 cert this st ENG L ISH" JE AT ONLY TO BE IN KINGSTON, re Look Around | ord: al- | g | Humanity hag Tacked a At MA A iP 1807. In 1903 he was give degree of D.D ersity. He entered -ministry in 1880, and 1884 He was r Rerth, Quekec, Cornwal Falls, Ottawa, Toronto, an Winnipeg, He w secretary. of th { Montreal Conference in 1898. In 190 I'he - was appointed prof. Testament Exegesi and ¢ x tory Wesley College, Winnipe as written and lectured m among the most popular tures "bei sing The De velopment of B.A. in the honort Queen's | Methodist ained in ston, of his TEMPLETON'S |RHEUMAT IC CAPSULES RHEUMATISM, NEURITIS, SCIATICA LUMBAGO, NEURALGIA GOUT ETC ASURE RELIEF FOR THE WORST HEADACHE | | §ise PER BOX remedy since time began, ines are sy ent yearly 's at hot springs, electric baths and he tals to obtain relief, achieved right at home hb by using T.R.C.'s and results with any other treatment be convince Ask yout drug it us for our new booklet; it is interest. sts you mothing (Tewmpletons, 43 o ng W., roto). br of $1.0 Sole agent for Kingston, James Mel 0d, Druggist. We mail anywhere on et batter results are | "the | common sense treatment." Just compare cost B. n 1aracter," "Civie roblems".and "The Build- {1 a Nation." He has not been identified with either of the political arties; but has labored strenuously 1, temperance, social and moral re- form." He has ys desired and | worked for federation of Christian { churches and the Christianization of the miscalled secular activities of the i world, _, An ardent Imperialist, he be- lieved fhat Canada should share in the cost as well as the protection -of the Empir He a Free Trader, a be- liever in Single Tax on land values, | the largest measure of public owner- ship that can safely be managed, and favors the erection of a Canadian Hall { of Fame : Type « e a Aug. 31st, the last call to John Lee, who died af- 1seful life cf seventy. yf which was spent in > of Bathurst turnkey h junty goal for half a century he has met al- most every class of manhood and wo- nanhood in his and he came lown the corridors of time to his | death, man of the people, stronger and better in every way because of experiences The tax rate for the town of Pem- broke for the year 1919 will be 30 mills on the dollar. » It is mighty easy to advertise: be eerful when nothing troubles you. 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