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GOSPEL OF HENRY GEORGE
His Teachings Reviewed by Rev.
DR.. Heber Newton.
Poverty Is Against God's Law. Says
the Preacher-People Should En-
joy Increase in Land Values.

New York, Dec 2O.-The Rev Dr. Il,
Newton preached q stirring sermon ut
All Souls Church yesterday on The
Moral and Religious Aspects of Henry
Georges Land boctrine" His text as
from Leviticus Xxv-. 23: The Land is
Mine"
when a man comes into the world"
said the preacher, charged with a great
idea: imbucd with the sense of divine
mission; preaching to his generation what
he heiieves 10 he q new and higher truth,
1t iy the duty OF all who call themselves
Christians Ia consider his message and
prepare TO accept 1t, In ~ far as ii is true,
no matter how 1t may run athwlrt re-
.csiyed opinions and traditional befefs.
|, 1.-The death of Henry George was
challenge 10 hts generation to consider
the truth OF his lifework. That the
truth he brought was a reveIutionizing
one is no eX.-use for us to shirk its con
sideration. Other equally revolutiouia-
ing thoughts have come into the world
in times past and are Tow calmly ac-
oepted with placidity which leaves NO
suspicion Of their original radicalness.
! Henry Georges doctrine w.s much
more than an economic doctTiIie-it was
IA moral and religious doctrine. The book
/ was an appeal to Conscience. The re
Iigious nature of man was touched by
the Arguments which he presented. II 1t
is in any measure true, then, however
contrary to received and conventional
judgi. epts. it, appeal to conscience AMI
the religious sens. should be sustained
by the pulpit.
Henry George represented poverty as it
really is-as moral wrong. 1t was not
the mere pitifulHess OF poverty which
one secs all around him that shocked his
soul: n was the sense that there is some-
thing wrong in it all: that it ought not to
be: that in being, some law OF right, Of
God, is violated consciously or uIcpnscnusiy
"Competitton is grinding down profits
in e-.Ty branch of trade Are the poor
responsible fer the hard times. for their
being cut Of empTt. yment, for their thus
using UP their bearded wages, for the
drop in their standards Of living. for
their enforced accepta nee OF lower wages?
VIII these or,linar y superficial explanations
OF poverty account for the growing !rlp-
lessness OF the Wage-worker, his slow but
sure loss OF individual Independence as the
factory system grows and the corporate
employment OF wealth increases and he
finds himself hut an annex to the great
and costly pia mt without which he can do
no stroke OF work?
1T is the fault Of the system under
which we are all working. f man chooses
to act a Il morsi being. what lie calls
econ:ruic laws VIII adjust themselves to
morality, and in their adjustment Will elm
mate or amelhrate poverty
..Ma,aulay once said that II the law Of
gravitation endangered the wealth Of any
class 1t would be seriously objected
to. Mr. iieurge locates this wrong pri-
Inarily in our syst tem of land tenure. Land
is the s,ne factnrin the production OF wealth
which is absolutely limited. The wealth
of our landed proprietOrs is largely
trusteeslip, directly Responsible to tue
community. The chief wrong involved IN
our system Of land tenure is the fact that
the land was ever allowed to lapse from
the property of tue people at large to
private property"
DIR. Newton opposed confiscation OF land
at present. hut held thatit would be justi-
fiabl. to decree by legislation that after 4
given dare all Increase in land valnes should
go to the people.
Referring tt the appeal OF Henry G gorge.
whom lie described as "a modern prophet"
DR.. Newton said:
''ThUse who can accept his principle in
part o. fl. whole find their faith In a good
God returning to them with the belief that
this good Coo has 30 ordered things that
poverty Eeed not be the lot Of the mass or
men,"