The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-28
AN OVERFLOW MEETING
NECESSITATED AT oALp1RY B1P-
 TEST CHURCH LAST EVENING,

Sermon by Rev. MT. Biederwolf-NIr. Mills on Christianity and Soolalism-An Able Address-1 800 People at Last Nights Meeting--Rev. MT. Popes Remarks.
 A large audience listened to the ad- dress of Rev, B. Fay Mills on "Chrls- tianity and Socialism" at the Grand opera house yesterday noon. MT. Mills selected for his text II. Corinthians, 1914: "The communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all," and said:
 We are not meant to lose and we never shall lose the magnificent in- spiration of the sixteenth century, that put the proper value upon the indiv- idual; and the whole problem of the twentieth century and of the worlds history, concerns not submerging of the individual into characterless asso- citation with his fellows, but the volun- tary specializing of the individual man by the possession of the spirit of the loving sacrifice of Christ.
 The great contribution of Christian ity for the transformation of society, beyond the highest form of any Christ less socialism would be from three sources:
 First: Christianity takes account of sin as manifested in human selfishness. There have been those who have criti- cised socialism as immoral, but its calmest historian has well said that it a r,pa to say that it inculcates am unselfish- ness unattainable by any probable de- velopment of human nature.'
 While in some respects it may be more satisfactory on principles of po- etic justice to see the few governed by the many, rather than the many con trolled by the few, it is clear to the best observers that the selfish rule of the unintelligent many would probably be a more terrible experience for hu- manity than the selfish government of the intelligent few, and would ulti- mately result in an oligarchy that would be the most tyrannical and des- potic of history.
 Disguise 1t as we may, industrial society is divided into two vast armies hostile to one another-like armies, inn putting to one another unfair and gen. erally false es-misinterpreting cath others acts, and trying to use their legislative power, by fair means and foul, to curb their opponents pow CT and to thwart their opponents plans. Meanwhile, the people at large look on, more or less bewildered, try ing, in helpless hapless way, to de- wise some legislative remedy, and at last losing their temper and coercing by strong measures the side which they conceive for the moment to be lacking in proper respect for their fhe peo- ple's) convenience, and for the law as it stands on the statute books
 "In regard to arbitration, it may be possible to-day for men like the Brook lyn presidents and MT Pullman to calm 1y suppress all appeals and arguments by denying that there is anything to arbitrate. There are, however, only two presidents to 5000 trolley men, and one Pullman to 10000 employees. Does there never cross the minds of the pres idents and Pullmans the faintest shade of a suspicion that the day will come when the thousands will be their mas ters, and that these thousands will, in even fewer words, decline to arbitrate, but subject their former masters to a harsher treatment than they are them selves to-day receiving? To give them political equality and industrial despot- ism is to store dynamite for an earth transforming explosion. The only pos sible reconciliation will be the Chris tianizing of the individual who shall gain a rational conception of the pur- poses and character of God, and shall give himself in glad submission to the purging of selfishness from humanity, by the practical yielding of himself to the spirit of the cross of Christ
 "The primary need of men is spiritual rather than material. There are some radical socialists who hold that all mems selfishness Is caused by the fear of want, and who tell us that even Jay Gould trembled until the last mo- nient of his life for a conviction that he was at last to be reduced to poverty, and that he continued his terrible cruel ties of men, and hoarding of his illicit gains with the thought to protect him. self against such a catastrophe.
 There are three bonds of union that may be suggested among men-physi- cal, intellectual and spiritual.
 Regarding the first, we realize that the ties that bind men may be most easily broken. We have been justly re- pelled by mechanical and fictitious theo- ries concernng the salvation of the souls of men, but the great lesson that the twentieth century must learn is that it shall profit a man nothing if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul and that there is nothing that man can give in exchange for his soul
 "Neither the individual nor society will be saved in any fashion except by the spiritualizing ofconception and prac- tice; and all the labor of man will be ut terly thrown away that does not take into account as it's chief endeavor, both in the material and intellectual world, as well as directly in the department of religion, the saving of the soul
 eff you could save the Turk, he would be the proprietor of one of the fairest, and most fruitful lands on earth.
 If you could save the soul of the African, the Great Desert would indeed be made to rejoice and blossom as the rose'
 .If you could save the soul of the Irishman, and the soul of the English man, the distraction of years would cease and the tyranny of centuries