Article August 31, 1929 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from D. W. P. S., L. A. Hartley, J. C. Carlile

[Editorial in the Christian Century, Chicago, Illinois]

It is not the business of the church to dictate the management of industry or even to preach social dogmas and doctrines as sine qua nons of the social gospel. But it is the business of the church to insist upon the largest possible expression of brotherhood in the working relations of human society. The canons of democracy in both government and industry are . . . seeking realization in the practical relations of a work-a-day world. Cooperation in material interests is brotherhood at work, minting the coin of the kingdom of God into the human weal. "Government and cooperation," said John Ruskin, "are, and in all things eternally, the law of life."

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