New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-06
Christian Socialism.


Socialist, Journal of Association conducted by
some of the promoters of the Workingmens Asso-
Citations in London, and beg your assistance, to
introduce it to the friends of Association in Amer
lea.
The first article called The New Idea, is by
LAWYER Read it ye men OF progress, and be
convinced that we should be above all class preju
dice. and not condemn even the Lawyers enmasse,
albeit the LAWYERS on both sides of the Atlantic,
are but too generally men who seek by the prac-
tice Of that profession, to escape from doing any
thing useful. Read it all ye sincere Christians,
and learn that as such, you cannot consistently con
denim Socialism Sc, because as the writer SAYS:
a New Idea has gone abroad into the world That So
ciaisu the latest born othe forces ct work in modern
society and Christianity The eldest born OF the forces, are
in their hostile but akin to each other, rather
that the is but the development, the outgrowh OF the
other that the strongest and most monsous forms
of Socialism al bottom but Christian heresies
Read it ye men of the world who Cypress the
poor aud grind their faces by your monopolies,
your speculatlOns, your competition and other
legal wrongs which cry to God for vengence and
learn that you have no right whatever to call
yourselves Christians, for it says;
AFT Chriss gospel speaks true we cannot serve God
anc Mammon;' thai gospel is wholly Incompatible with
political economy which proclaims seltneTest to be the
very point of social action. That Chrsts gospel speaks
true thou shalt love thy neighbor as myself that gospel
cannot stand with system OF trade based wholly on The
idea OF profit, e. ofakng more from our neighbor than
buy cheap and TO sedear"
Read it ye Associationists who profess Chris
tianity, that We may be convinced that your rcll-
gious tenets and your worldly practice are IN
harmony with each other we teachers OF the
Gospel that We may not think Socialism subject
unworthy OF your teachings.
Read it ye, who believing in the doctrine of So
cialism, and not in that Of Christianity, profess
beralty and federation, lest pcrchance the Church
Of England man proves more liberal than your
selves.
Read it all ye who know what you ought to do
and neglect your duty, tor the writer concludes BY
saying =. ~, ,,,., .o,,o,,a, Of o,oon,, ua,.,,o
caumny neglect shall make Us deserL so long as we
have strength and carry the night For fight
ii 10, and long one and deadly onei hsht against all
the enemies OF Mammon y
ten the above will not finch from his word, nor
let us 20 beyond him, however sincerely we may
strive to accomplish this our noble duty
The No contains also: An Exposition of the
principles Of the London Society, by the same wr
Ter An Address to the Working Glasses by the
Secretaries Of the Society Association news and
correspondence (Let me take this opportunity Of
requesting the Associations of the nited States
TO let me know what they are doing, that | may
have it inserted in future Nos An account OF the
Arm Chair Makers Association III Paris, which
has appeared in The Tribune: some lighter mat
tects Of the present social and industrial arrange
ments rs being the cause OF crime This is by the
author of Alton Locke, and is what might be cx-
pccted from him as is the following Poem, which
had already appeared i'll Frazers Magazine.
THE DAY OF THE LORD.
THE Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand
Its storms roll up the sky.
A nation sleeps starving on heaps OF gold
All dreamers toss and sigh
,,o;,, Sc oatt l,l chill horn
And the night is darkest before the dawn
Ofthe Day ofthe Lord at hand
Gather YOU, gather you, Angels of God
Chivury, Justice and Truth
Come for The Earth is grown coward and old,
Come down and renew US her youth.
Freedom, seli.sacrfce, mercy and love,
Haste to the battle feld-stoop from above
To the Day of the Lord at hand
Gather you, gather you, hounds hell;
Famine and plague and war;.
4dleness bgotry, cant and mlsrue-
Gather and fall in the snare.
Hrelings and mammonites, pedants and
knaves,
Crawl to the battle field, sneak to your graves
In the Day of the Lord at hand.
Who would sit down and whine for lost Age
of Gold,
While the Lord of Ages is here
True hearts will leap up at the trumpetof God,
And those who can sniler, can dare.
Each past Age Of Gold was an Iron Age too
And the meekest of saints may find stern
work to do
In the Day ofthe Lord at hand.
Persons who may desire to receive this work
are informed that they can have it regularly,
soon can make the necessary arrangements
with some New.York Bookseller-and that this
is not on the part Of the Publishers an affair of
commerce. but of human progress. All who wish
well to this cause whether Associationists or not,
are without regard to creed, class, or color, in
vited to study our principles; the Associationists
are earnestly invited to study our practice, for
although, rs have said in former communica-
tion san isolated Association may succeed, even
as men of business in the competitive system
succeed an Isolated Association is a contradjc-
ton of all the principles OF Socialism; it is gra-
tuitous refusal OF the chief benefits of Associa-
ton, even in pecuniary sense; it is an utter
denial Of any appeal to principle as their motive;
it will cause more evil to the workers not in Asso-
cations than does the present system and finally,
it will not stand, because it possesses internal
elements of dissolution, rivalry, suspicion the de.
sire Of mastership, and the want OF support by
the wisdom the experience, the authority, and
the solidarity OF the general body OF delegates
and OF the other associations. 1RoN Pen.
Address to me at the Office Of The Tribune