New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-23
DECLARE CHURCH ATFAULT
SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE OF RE-
LIGIoN CRITICIsE MINISTER'S

Judge Simeon E. Baldwin. of New-Haven. opened
the discussion at the New-York Conference OF Re
ligon. in the assembly hall OF the United Charities
Building. at 10 o'clock yesterday speaking on
Church and School in Social Righteousness" He
said in part:
Society in our present condition is founded on
relations Of property and not OF human relations.
II must be the main office OF schools and colleges
would bring social righteousness before his pupils
fhjHk 70 the the New Testament biography will I
The pulpit is not think competent to give that
been until recently entirely away from the fields
OF sociology and social ethics, but I do not hold
II improbable that the Sunday school of the TWEEN
Hetn century will establish courses Of study in
Christian ethics applied to sociological questions
President James NJ. Taylor OF vassar College.
speaking on the topic. said that the present
lax methods in education and the teaching of the
Church. the character of modern and literature
and the newspaper of to-day are responsible Cor
the unrighteousness prevailing in public life IN
America at the close OF the nineteenth century
Edwin Markham author of The Man with
the Hoe. spoke to large audience at the after
noon session To show how man largely takes on
his nature from his surroundings the poet said
II a boy is given be nursed by a she wolf he
Will suck from her breast: he will grow up with
the other cubs. will growl and snarl as they. and
babies grow like the dump piles among which they
live; the angels grow white looking at the throne
Professor Thomas c. Hall. OF Union Seminary,
dISO Iedu a paper dealing WIN TINS SUBJECT
The other topic for discussion during the after
noon session The Unorganized Religious
Forces" The Rev. Algernon S Craspey. OF
Rochester. who spoke on this topic said in part:
The trouble is that the root Of religion is no! in
tantsm has sought to lift its roots from that soil
town because there it was surrounded by the crirn
nal classes II has since died somewhere uptown
arid soil Of respecta bity. but does not go deep
cldes 10 do so II is doomed.
The speaker said the conditions in the Catholic
Church were somewhat different That church
stretched down the soil deep enough. but did
Which WAS m ngH Tha c6uTeh fed
shut the light out, and the Protestant Church tried
10 Follow its example a smaller scale
.t A. the annual meeting; which was held in the
aIa3 me present EEec9tVe I9rnIttee was
ference here in 1892 The Rev. John K. Allen. OF
Tarrytown. presided.
CONTROLLER COLER SPEAKS.
The night session was held at the Brick Presby-
terrain Church. Fifth-ave. and Thirty-seventh-st.
The church was filled. Rabbi VI. n. Harris occu-
pied the chair. Controller Coler read a paper on
The Place and Power of the Church in Politics"
He said in part:
no haze heard it ASSERTED that social moral and
Pe1G5 uc n not rqS and is Ds on the
sustains the most munifcent charities churches
and educational facilities in all the world. There
of and do more for the material welfare of the
people Of the district than is accomplished
than one-half the churches in New York They
understand the social conditions district
make themselves necessary 10 II
The politician begins down among the people in a
barroom the open air and works up TO club.
The Church too often begins with a club and works
down to a failure. Bring the of property and
education and the man Of toll together somewhere
and somehow
THE CHURCH IN POLITICS
Mr.. Coler followed by the Rev. Alfred w
wishart of Trenton, who delivered an address on
The Unused Power of the Churches in Politics.
He said in part:
The greatest obstacle have encountered in my
efforts 10 get 10 respect the Christian ideal in
politics is the corrupt political life of prominent
church members. These men. by virtue of their
wealth, intelligence and social position. are far
more dangerous to the American institutions than
those coarse and commonplace politicians who
make no pretension TO religion.
Good government will never be had until the
people consciously and deliberately choose TO have
it Clubs should be formed in every community
for the discussion of social and political questions
and practical politicians and business men should
ne invited TO speak and participate in the discus
Sions.
A magnificent, but practically unoccupied. field
lies open TO ministers and Christian laymen in the
various labor organizations The majority of men
m the common walks OF life beyond reach
unless go 20 them