Article August 12, 1922 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Roger W. Babson, Brice P. Disque, Henry B. Wilson, Daniel L. Marsh, Charles E. Pridgeon

[From the South-West Suffolk Echo, Haverhill, Suffolk, England]

Rev. A. D. Beldon, of Westcliffe, said that they [the churches] really all belonged to one another, and that meant they could not afford to do without one another in any sense whatsoever. So the great contribution the Christian churches had to make was the great passion for humanity. They had to bridge the gulf between the classes, between employer and employed, creating a fundamental stream of sympathy through the whole land, and washing away misunderstanding. It was utterly idle for the employers to group themselves together into their federations, and pool, as it were, only their own brains, and equally useless for labor to gather together into its own unions and do likewise. What was wanted was some power to bring those pooled forces together in the interests of all.... If people would only look at each other in the light that streamed from the Cross of Calvary, if they would only look into each other's souls trustingly and patiently, they would begin to understand and to love each other. For there was no soul without fundamental interest to every other soul, seeing that all of us had been made in the image of Almighty God.... It was not good enough to be a sort of halfway Christian.... Those who followed the practice of strictly keeping themselves to themselves were not of much use to the rest of humanity. They must show plainly they had a real interest in those who did not worship, must show they wanted such, and valued them. Then these would come in. Humanity everywhere responded to the real touch of friendship. There must be universal eternal friendship. That was the only spirit that would solve their problems, fill their churches, and save the world.

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