Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04

signed his pastorate some time ago
recently gave out his reasons for SO
doing. 1T is impossible, he said,
'for the preacher to preach his con-
victions. The tendency of the
modern fashionable church is who'll
ly to subserve the interests of the
rich. This is why have quit the
ministry"
He said he would not again
accept a regular pastorate, but
would preach whenever invited to
do so, providing he should be per-
fitted to give expression to his
honest convictions.
This bears out the views ex-
pressed by w. ]. Client, author of
"Our Benevolent Feudalism" in
little book which he calls ''Mass
and Class. ="
Mr.. Client has divided the mod
ern world into two classes, or rather
the mass and the class, the division
being economic and one OF func-
ton. The first are the proletar-
ians or wage-earning producers,
those "who actually participate in
the physical processes of creative
and distributive work; the second,
whose function is to buy material
and labor and sell goods.
The former are producers, while
the latter are traders. There are
many persons of course who dc
not come strictly within these
classifications, but who may ir
some manner be grouped with one
or the other. Among these are So
cia1 servants who minister to tn,
needs of the workers, educators
clergymen, physicians, artists
writers and the employees of public
institutions. The author find
that the economic pressure exertet
upon this class by the dominan
class is so severe that in many case
they render a subservient class ser
vice rather than worthy socia
service.
There are clergymen, for in
stance amplifies the writer, "wh
give themselves up to the task @
upholding, by word and action, tn
special views and standards of In
trading class, and erecting thos
standards into an ethical cod
which they seek to impose upon a
society. Such clcrgymen are IN
doubtedly retainers.
He believes this occupation, ne
cessitated in some cases by economi
pressure to be uncongenial to tn
majority of the clergy, however
and that in most cases they rcnde
true social service to the comml
nifty In outlining the economi
pressure in the formation of ideals
he puts the idea again in this way
mo sentiments OF univers;
brotherhood arise spontaneously
working community thrcatene
with Asiatic cheap labor; no CO
lectiavist deals are voiced amor
the congregations of churches Ell
dowed by dukes of the oil realm {
earls Of the tobacco fields.
The great world force is the ec'
nomic force, the force that HI
shaped governments for the prote'
ton of self-interest, that hi
brought on wars from the early ba
bariap conquests to the. America
revolution fought about oucstio
of taxation, a question that touchs
the pocket, The immediate ply
ioai need of making a living,
ever the most pressing incentiv
and ideasl, though having son
slight hold are shaped and litnit'
by this economic pressure. TT
author Quotes the picture drawn
Ezekiel twenty-five centuries ag
of the just man: "He that hath n
given forth upon usury, neith
hath taken any increase, etc.
"Over and over again." sa
Mr.. Client, in his book, 'throu
the centuries, there has been ne
up to the generations of men II
stern moralists ideal of just ma
And yet it may be doubted if eN
vet, by direct reason of 1T, has
money-lender declined his intere
a trader given value without pro
or a conqueror stayed his hand
on a subjugated people"
mot to go over the authors
gument as to the existence OF
two classes of producers"
TRADERS in any modern industr
community, an argument which
sustains very we'll, one comes n
to the proposition that, since NOR
have their base on economic con
tons, we shall now find an ethie
a. nrod,,oers and an ethic OF