Evening journal., 1911-11-28
RECTOR URGES
BROTHERHOOD
MIR. Wells Tells Socialists
Ideals May be Reached
Through Cooperation
SAYS ART OF LIVING IS
CONFINED Te MINORITY

Local Socialists held big meeting
In Labor Lyceum, No 112 North Jack
son street last evening when the Rev.
Hubert w. Wells, rector OF st. An
drew's Protestant Episcopal Church,
delivered a lecture to about 800 people.
Many women were present and the
hall could not accommodate all who
attended.
John P. Edwards acted as chairman
and at the conclusion of the address
OF Mg Wells, Arnold w. Francois
spoke of the Mcnamara trial now
going on in the West II was an
nounced that a meeting to protest
against the capitation law would be
held in the Second and Ninth wards
within a short time.
In the course of his speech the
Rev M Wells said in part:
"Mylexcuse for being here Is that
l amla Christian minister. For me
the vry heart of the religion of Jesus
lies n His summary of the law when
He aid. Thou shalt love the Lord
thyGod with all thy heart and with
all tny soul and with all thy mind
nfwith all thy strength; and thou
shit love thy neighbor as thyself!
inthese words of Jesus we have
ptciple that may be regulative of all
hman conduct. OF all relations OF
nm to man, and that should be so
rgulative
/ am what may be called a Chris
lan Socialist That is to say, | be-
ieve that the secret of all right pro-
gress in affairs lies in the co-opera-
tive idea. The heart of all true So
cialism, If understand 1t. is co-opera-
tion hTe religious equivalent of CO.
Operations is 1ove'-the word love
ias Christians use it, is the Christian
WORD for cooperation II is to be re-
gretted that the word Socialism is so
loose and so vague in its uses. II re-
minds me of a humorous turn that an
old friend of mine used to give TO the
maxim, Have a place for everything,
and put everything it is place. He
made it run thus: Have a place for
everything and put everything in that
place So it is with Socialism every
thing that good men hate and dread,
everything that other men wish to
brand and damn, is thrust into this
catchall. For everything of that sort
t'ONA1AioAA II NAAclA DA4A's A1ui W.
shall be near the gist of true Social
ism If we remember that cooperation
worked out through life in all its re-
lalions and in much of its detail is the
heart of our longing and our aim.
We live in an unhappy world to-
night--a world Of pain, of poverty, OF
suffering Of every sort-of vice and
crime. of drunkenness and prostitu-
tim Whtr In ma in Z.
world? Why should the. world be
such at all? answer because the
art of living is confined to the tiny
minority; the majority knows nothing
Of the art OF living. The great ma
jority Is stunted and brutalized. and
il will continue 10 be stunted aud
brutalized until it becomes possible
for It to learn the art of living. Thas
shall be when circumstances are
sufficiently favorable to it to- urge i
TO a knowledge Of the art of living,
and not before. And the spirit of
brotherhood-the cooperative idea
the love of the religion of Jesus is
the only power upon circumstance
to alter them for the great majority
so that that majority may learn the
art of living-the finer Joy, the dearei
pleasure, the nobler recreation
/ am convinced that most of our
problems, as we call them-thl
drink problem, the social evil prob
lem viii vanish into thin air AZ
problems when the spirit of brother
hood comes with power upon men-
when the cooperative idea is the
controlling idea in the making of al
laws, in the framing and the building
a. all institutions, in the administer
ing of all human affairs. **%*
Socialism is a terror to thl
igaorant and to the prejudiced. ans
ye. some of our most cherished in
stNutions in this land are parts O
thl accomplished program of the co
operative idea. The public school 4
q noble example of the co-operativ
Ida What a splendid system it is
Tie city water supply is a SOCIALISM,
Institution. What excellent water
IL gives u.s. don't know whethe
i Ishould be so ready to turn tn
siigot and to draw thence a cup q
cid water without fear of contami
ntion, as now / do, we're som
rivate enterprise in control of tn
vater supply of this city!
What shall we do to advance tn
euse in which We believe? HOY
hall we accomplish the co-operativ
6ea? answer, by the simplenes
n preaching-by preaching it fror
Sulpit, from work bench, from ofic
ltool, from the seats Of the mighty
BY preaching it in season and out G
season. For still is it true as it wa
true so long ago, that the feet 9
those who publish glad tidings ar
beautiful upon the mountain tops
The Good News of Jesus is the new
that man is made in the image {
Coda son of God. and that God
thought for man is the thought {
brotherhood lived in sincerity and !