The sun., 1908-11-02
CHURCH SOCIALISTS MEET
I'D FLAGS AND ROARS FOR
DIES AT THE GATHERING.
zaas Meeting at Carncgie Hall Listens TO
DenunciationS Of the Church as Now
irganized-Advent OF Socialism Will
GignaliZe the Real Coming OF Christ.

signalize the Real Coming OF Christ,
The mass meeting which was held at
4Hzneeis Hall last night under the aus
z|rea Of the Christian Socialist Fellowship
oeued with the singing of the doxology
81 an Invocation and came to an end with
H1autous cheers for Eugene Debs
I'D waving Of red flags from pit TO top
1|1st gallery. Between the opening and
81 ciosing of the meeting there was much
4Ibfe socialism evident than dogmatic
Ehlistianity
LAST nights rally was the finll effort
e the Christian Socialists in the nom
z4fkisan espousaI Of Debs and Christian
#9dIslism that che ReV. John d. Long
z.sId IL associates have initiated since
aznt ftb rod special began touring the
uo1uffy. AS at e previous meeting in
Cooper Union orc SundGv about e month
A40. the Rev. j. Sttt Wilson, one Of tho
Hnhs orators. YVES the chief spc iko: .
1t tho Coorer Union mcoting Mr. Wilson
I'd said that al religious organizations
6h&t did not support socialism wore shans
md dross Gnd lest night no Gddei tho
Ihoaght thu God who countonencei
azpitallstic ridden society was not tho
I'd Of tho Socialists
When DR.. Long rose to announce at
nc beginning of tho meeting that tho dox-
eiogy would be sung he found it neces-
eary to specify that the doxoIogy was
tfobably familiar to many Of the audi
ence who had been in churches Not
Wifhstandinz DR.. Longs explanation
there were many of the audience from the
kagt Side who sat with their red flags in
-. l.. Il l,, for IN
nTaise Of tho Trinity to be chantei
Dr. Long then had brief word to say.
We are the real Salvation Army
ft was In part "Our gun Is the gun of
the Socialist party and our bellots are
The bullets We will fire at and destroy
the modern works OF the devil es eNempli-
led u our scheme of society
He4then introduced John sparso,
real Socialist, as chairman of the meet
Ing. Mr.. Spargo entered an apology for
the Christian Socialist Fellowship. The
Regular memb ers OF the Socialist party
ought 10 welcome the Christian Socialists,
eaid he. for they were trle workers for
tlie right. despite several unkind things
that real Socialists were wont TO think
N them.
VI know that in the minds of a great
fnahy Socialists the words Christian
Socialist have a bad sound said Mr..
HparKo.. 'Too many think that the Chris
tan Socialiotssi in this country are like the
pe7pie of the same name in Europe who
do all In their power to be neither Chris
s tian nor Socialists. Too many think of
the Christian Socialists as Offering para
dice in heaven instead Of paradise on
this earth. We must do all that We can
to correct this misapprehension and lead
our comrades of the regular Socialist
< neftF to welcome these. our comrades.
know that there will be no more loyal
kfrny march to the polls on Tuesday next
TO cast their votes for Eugene Y. Debs
than these brethren of the Christian
&ocialist Fellowship
After some music Mrs. katherine
Kennedy. slight little woman with
big voice, deiv cred a rousing socialistic
speech It was all about socialism and
there was no mention In it Of the Christ
isnity that is usually preached on sun
day nights.
Then the Rev. j. Stitt Wilson, who has
recently been conducting summer schools
Ia socialism in England and who once
lived in Kansas and later in Chicago, was
faiisTn. the Modern Anti-Christ.' MIR.
Hpargo said parenthetically in his in
Hoduction Of MIR. Wilson that since that
gentleman did not have time to deliver
( any more addresses in New York he would
broaden the subject of his address and
F.. |tAtC u konCId a. tONlcW VI talO "uoiC CiC0d
of socialism,
Mr.. Wilson appealed to that part Of
s the audience that carried red flags imme-
tliateiy. for his methods of delivery were
those familiar to the open air East Side
with the passing of the present polit-
teal and social system from of the face
of this earth-and the undertaken is
waiting at the door for the corpse-there
win also peas the kind of religious sys-
kems and ethics that support the hid
eous injustice of the present social order.
Afr. Wilson began.
What we are to vote for next Tuesday
and continue TO vote for until we get
II, viii be when it comes veritabe sec
and coming Of Jesus Christ. There will
panying that coming, none Of the appur-
tenances Of the religious schemes Of the
day But IL that event will signalize the
opportunity for every man to stand on
hss feet and free himself Of the social
md economic shackles that bind him to-
dsys5 than IL 1t 10 not the second coming
& of the .Redsemer there surely will never
be such an event.
Hers everybody cheered, whether his
religion taught him to believe that Christ
bad already once visited the earth or
whether he clung to the yet unfulflled
When that event has come to pass
ccntinued the orator. Il should not be
zurprised IL the people Of this world should |
wipe out all that has gone before and |
begin counting time from the then year
But II at present anybody wishes to |
DIE and 60 to heaven, leaving this earth |
with Its shocking burden OF inhumanity |
es Il is and doing not bit to relieve the |
burden. let him die and let him 90 to |
&ezyen. He is dismissed from this audi |
ence. II anybody wants power and |
wants TO 60 down to Wall Street and |
write political platforms let him hurry,
hurry. hurry, for the undertaken of this |
echefne OF events is at the door and there |
b not yet much time remaining"
Mr.. Wilson had compliment to pay |
New York. This city was, he said aristo-
cratic. intellectual, provincial, dictatorial |
No New Yorker will ever be saved, said |
The speaker. 1t was better to he a mere |
man than New Yorker. He continued: |
Il don't mean to attack this audience |
Tun are nothing but little handful of |
people gathered in a little city Bring
ne this audience. Fill up the front rows
N5th your Bishops and priests. Set be-
hind fhern your deacons and your elders
then crowd in your Presidents and candi- |
dates Tor the Presidency, your Judges Of
the Supreme Court and your men of
money, who have all sat on the back Of
augering humanity and bled it to the last
bi Fer drop"
Then the red flags sprouted again and
Tor the rest OF the Rev. Doctors speech
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