The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-17

merce. read an essay on "The Church in Her
Relation to Labor and Capital" Mr. Speers in
the course of his remarks said:
The church, by the spiritual changes which It
membership, has elevated them from habits
and conditions that lead only to poverty and
crime In return for such priceless benefits
labor and capital should give their first and lest
efforts to the church for its extension aud pros-
perity. The elective franchise should not be
given any foreigners until they can read and
ton and long enough resident to become
thoroughly conyersant with the laws and
customs of the land, be that time ten
o OF sWenty " years speers thought the
days labor was more vital to the wage-earner
than to the capitalist. For the last ten years
cent Ii further pressed, and the goose that
now lays the golden egg OF constant aud we'll
remunerated employment is killed, manufactor-
les must be closed and labor left without EN-.
ployment If the enhanced cost of production is
not added 70 the goods produced, and which
must be paid by the consumers, OF whom the
wage-earners and their families are the great
Rev. ]. Berry, of New Zealand, dwelt on the
strikes question. He said the position Of Meth
odism in the twentieth century will depend
largely upon her attitude toward the labor
movement In the last decade OF the nine
teenth century there can be no peace between
employees and employed until the principle of
profit sharing is recognized as an equitable set
Element OF the wage question and adopted
wherever practicable. Let us make haste to
wipe out the reproach that the Christian pulpit
hardly touches upon the duty of the rich to the
poor, except by an occasional sermon upon the
duty of being Charitable. Until justice is done
there is no place for charity.
/. K. Inch, OF the Methodist church in Canada,
spoke on the moral aspects of combinations OF
capital. He dealt severe blows to trusts
Congressman J. D. Taylor, of Ohio said he had
been a workman himself. He had concluded
there was no adequate remedy on the face of the
earth for the complaints of labor except the
Christian religion and abolition of the liquor
traffic.
Numerous other addresses were made on the
subject, and in the afternoon "The Obligation
of the Church in Relation to the Social Condi-
ton OF the People" was discussed.
At the evening session the subject Of missions,
foreign and domestic, was extensively dis
cussed. Rev. William Morley, of New Zealand,
and Rev. Mr.. Townsend, of England, suggested
that a great extension of the mission field il
demanded, especially in Africa and China
Rev. A. B. Leonard, of New York, dwelt on
missions in Christian lands. The vast influx of
immigration into the United States and Canada
make these countries in particular mission
ground There is little hope of relief from
stringent immigration laws. No political party
Is likely to adopt such q policy, as ii would
lead to certain defeat The time has come for
evangelical churches to take I'D the line of
march for foreignized city centers on both sides
of the Atlantic, which are to be evangelical.
The advocates of all NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
agnosticism, spiritualism and atheism-are dis
seminating their poisonous teaching in every
possible manner. DR.. Leonard was severe on
the Catholic churches. This hierarchy, said he
would stop all men from thinking independ-
entlv, close all places of Protestant worship,
destroy free government, place priestly censor
ship over the press and priestly supervision
over the public schools. To successfully COM
bat all these enemies, Methodist federation is
necessitated.