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Resolutions Adopted by the '. Convention at San Francisco.

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 The adoption by the Episcopal Fri ennial Convention at San Francisco of Dr. McKim's resolutions providing for the creation of a standing Committee on the Relations of Capital and Labor, brings the aspirations of leading writ CTS far toward practical realization.
 Under this plan there will be per manent commission, consisting of three bishops, three presbyters and three laymen. It will be the duty of this body 'to study carefully the aims and purposes of the labor organiza- tions of our country to investigate the causes of industrial disturbances as they arise, and to be prepared to act as arbitrators, with a view to bring about mutual conci1iation and harmony in the spirit of the Prince of Peace."
 That is a rainbow of promise for our distracted social system. The church is the natural agency for the promotion of harmony among classes, for it is the one organization in which all classes are united upon footing of unselfshness and mutual conf dence.
 You could not expect a Chamber of Commerce or Bankers Association to take the lead in creating a system of arbitration, for the, workingmen in it only group of capitalists trying to get in one way what they had not been able to get in another.
 Nor could you expect employers to take enthusiastically to a scheme of conciliation devised by a labor union. It would seem to them merely walk ing delegates trick.
 In the State, indeed, all classes are united. Employers and employees alike vote for public officials, and if our pol itics were honestly managed State ar bitration might be the solution of the difficulty. But politicians are gener- ally supposed to be working for their own advantage, and hence, when they interfere in labor disputes, they are not usually t.usted by either side.
 But in the church men stand on a different footing. There they come to- gether, not for personal profit, but for spiritual elevation. All are face to face with God, in whose presence the trivial distinctions of human society shrivel into nothingness. Pierpont Morgan and his coachman meet as equals, and one called and consecrated to the service of power that is no respecter of persons ministers to them possible to find the means by which the petty differences that vex us hu- man insects in our moment of life on earth may be recOnciled
 You must, first of all,'' said Bishop Potter in one of his public writings on the labor question, provide sound il65i.-enif fIiie,1." -, |. ----t t.,saszli-.- =
 And Vat is precisely where the church can do it's most effective work. A sound public opinion is one that de- mands justice, that scorns trickery and that is warmed by an all-embrac- ing sympathy. Such an opinion can not be created by the representatives of contending interests, but it may be created by body which exists for the sole purpose of promoting the good of mankind.
 Genuine peace, it must be remem bered, cannot come through mere ex- ternal arbitration. If two parties agree to submit Q dispute to a third, and the arbitrator, after hearing them wrangle, renders a decision, the award may be accepted by both, but this sub mission does not necessarily mean harmony. The beaten party may be as bitten as ever, and may be only waiting for a good chance to renew the quarrel
 - For the peace to be real it must be not merely imposed upon the parties. and not merely accepted by them, but must actually please them. Each side must feel that it has been fairly treat ed. And the most useful function of such a body as the Episcopal Conven- tion has just created will be to inspire in each side such a regard for justice that it will be satisfied with what an impartial arbitrator can honestly award.
 The first commission appointed un- der the new Episcopal resolutions will command the confidence of capitalists and lahorers alike. Bishop Potter, of New York; Bishop Lawrence, of Mas sachusetts; Bishop-Coadjutor Ander- son, of Chicago; the Rev. Randolph McKim, of Washington; the Rev. George Hodges, of Massachusetts: the Rev. Charles D. Williams, of Ohio; Seth Low and Jacob A. Riis, of New York, and Samuel Maher, of Ohio, form a Board of Cancellation whose opiniCn on any labor question would come very near to being conclusive.
 The example of the Episcopal Church has been followed by the Civic Federation, whose industrial depart ment is to meet in this city on the 18th and 17th of December to discuss the relations between labor and capi- tai. Among the members of this body are Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Ire land, Bishop Potter, Seth Low, Charles Francis Adams, the president of a number of important manufacturing and transportation companies, Carroll D. Wright, United States Commission CT of Labor; Samuel Gompers, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor and the presidents of most of of the principal trades unions in the country.
 The movement so auspiciously start ed must spread. Every church should have it's National Commission on La I It,