Article April 3, 1909 Issue

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[Christian World, London.]

The monopolists, the distillers, the selfish interests, the social vampires in general, have every reason to fear the new attitude of the churches. Religion is turning its search-light on the doings of these people, and the results will not be pleasant. These doings are being openly discussed; things are even being said about them in pulpits. Worst of all, religious men are not deterred from speaking when these forces of unrighteousness take shelter behind political names and combinations. The new feature is, we say, a portent. It means the rise to power of a force that daily gathers strength, and which in the end will master everything that opposes it. We are at present watching only the beginnings of its work. But a generation will not have passed before it will have made a new world for our children to live in. What is this new force? We call it the social conscience.

[British Congregationalist.]

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