The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-11-30
CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST
FROZEN FROM PULPIT
BY Rich Vestrymen. Pittsburg Rector OHends
By Cr;ticising Industrialism.

III ana halt =.an1dden by tall Sky-
scrapers. 1t Is fianked on one side
by the Oliver building. the tallest or
fittsburgh's skyscrapers, which
stands on the ground leased from
Trinity Church. On the other side
The church is .fianked by Pittsburgh's s
leading department store, and across
The street it faces the exclusive Du-
quesne Clubs Part of the rear
church property has been taken by
the city for the construction of the
new Oliver street. named in honor
of the Junior senator from Pennsyl-
vania.
The old religious landmark is still
treated with tolerance by the Nigh
ty commercial and industrial neigh
bors that have crowded in on it, bu.
the tolerance of these new neighbors
does not extend to socialism, Chris
tian or otherwise, and it is ordained
now that the rector of Trinity
Church must 5-stick to the gospel
and leave economies alone''
"We must.s save the poor from
going to theahell of the other world,
but if they haYe hell on earth, that's
another question, which some peo-
pie think should not be discussed in
the pulpit. Isl the way Doctor Arun-
del puts it. r..
Open Pews Cause Trouble.
One of the first things Doctor Ar
undel did onghis arrivtl. at Trinity
Church was to insist on open pews
and free seats, Pittsburgh society
people revolted against this and in.
sisted that they paid for pews to oc-
cupy them Zen they cared to go
to church andsto have them remain
unoccupied wien they did not care
to go to church.
81 have never prached in church
where rich and poor are divided
I, into classes, according to the pcws
they occupy, and 1 never will" was
Doctor Arundel's ultimatum on this
| point, and he won out, thanks to u
donation OF $4,000 from John II.
Schoenberger, a retired Pittsburgh
| millionaire, then living in New York
who stipulated that his money was
to provide free pews and daily SER
vices in Trinity Church.
Then, when the millionaire pews
began to empty Sunday after Sunday
and the imm ediate vicinity of the
church became entirely mcnopoliZed
| by business, Doctor Arundel looked
handsome store to the tenements on
| Second and Third avenues, a few
squares away, and on he river front,
| for new congreg cation. He founu
that on the edge of the wealthy bust
ness and financial district there
were poverty and misery.
He started a kindergarten school
in his parish house. where children
1 20 II, @.t-
| from the tenement district and were
washed, clothed and fed. He made
no distinctions, but took in Italians,
| SlaVs- Jews and Getiles alike. To
the kindergarten he added n sewing
a gymnasium for the boys of the
tenement district. boys brigade
and evening entertainments and lee
lures. Soon all races in the tene-
ment section went to Trinity Church.
For mercy sake. keep them out
of here; they will give us all the
small poX and scarlet fever and what
not" protested the society eleme ent
that still ruled the church.
| Worse Things Than Disease.
They will give you worse than
either smallpox or scarlet fever un-
| less you look after them as your
| brothers keeper was Doctor Arun-
| del'S answer.
He was continually reminded to
stick TO the gospel and leave other
things alone,' but he kept on his
way, and until two years ago was
loyalty supported by w. G. Park, OF
the Crcible Steel Company; Major
w. G. McCandless. a rich insurance
man: w. H. Singer. a steel trust
millionaire. and C. NJ. Gormley, the
owner of the Royal Steam Laundry
These four influential officers OF
Trir5ty Church. who always sup
ported Doctor Arundel and tolerat-
ed his most liberal ideas. died with
in n few weeks of each other two
years ago.
The opposition to Doctor Arun.
del's social ideas then took courage
and became pronounced. Doctor Ar
undel has begun TO preach Christian
socialism, and openly declared that
the gilded superstructure of Pitts.
burgh's boasted industry and com
merce could not endure, because ii
rested on the rotten foundations oi
underpaid, underfed labor.
Let us have no more Bible.
. made by girls at wages on which
they cannot live in .virtue.'' crieC
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