Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-03

Carpenter" is, throughout, presented
as being the opposite of the slaYish
ed by all official branches of the
Church. To Bouck White. Jesus was
(and White proves his point by a mass
of documentary evidence) working
class revolutionist whose blows rained
fast and furious upon all those who
were In power. The Rome of nineteen
hundred years ago was parasite on
the face of the earth. A hundred mil
lions were in penury in order that
200, 600 Romans might reyel in SEN
Suality and excess. The slave class
of the Roman Empire alone numbered,
according to Gibbon, $4,000, 0O0." It
was a worldwide confederation of
aristacracies for the perpetuation of
human servitude."
!, Against the stupendous power Of
the oppresor and in favor of the slave
and the beggar, Jesus of Nazareth
raised the cry of rebellion: This, &C.
cording to Bouck White. is the founda-
mental fact in the message OF "the
Carpenter" From that he goes ON to
show how this message was first emas-
culated and then cleyerly turned to the
use of the ruling classes. This PERM
cious work was begun by st. Paul.
'tPaul's Jesus was not the Jesus Of
Galilee, but the imperial Lord of a
renewed and gloriied Roman Empire.
Christianity did not change Paul so
much as Paul changed Christianity.
His Jesus was a mere reformer-not
a revolutionist."
Every age has resulted in twisting
and then petrifying the message of
Jesus to serve the sly purposes of the
explOiterS. But at last conditions are
ripe for the complete understanding by
working people themselves of what
Christianity really means. 1.-THE Car
penter had come to bring sword and
preached divisions and class struggle >
'Put boss at the top of the uni
verse and the idea Of bossism will
trickle down into every human rela-
tionshfp." The time has come, in the
opinion of our author, to give true
religion a job in the world. It is to'
help in the establishment of universal
brotherhood, or Socialism. 'sDemocra-
cy is an enthusiasm or it is nothing
A propoganda to succeed must have
the driving power of great emotion ?,
Therefore, special democracy els q
movement to a truer and higher reli.
gion."
'"The Call Of the Carpenter" Is an
axe laid at the root of the dead tree
of Rockefellerism in religion. When
Bouck White, the founder and leader
of the Church of the Social Revolution,
went to the Rockefeller church to say
SO, he was put in Jail for six months:
To sustain Whites church while he is
in prison, there has been published
this "Blackwell's Island, Edition, of
his Interpretation of Christianity.
To the Socialist movement of the
United States, the field furnished by
the branches of the Christian church,
has long been neglected. There are
5000, GOO Protestant church members,
and 15,000,00O Catholics. Probably
three-fourts of this number toll for &
living. Some Socialist workers have
long since discovered the weak spot
In the armor Of capitalism, which ap-
pears when they try to sit quietly IN
church among those who exploit them.
No one can expect to convert Rookie
teller, the Baptist, or j r. Morgan,
the Episcopalian, to the point of view
of sThe Call Of the Carpenter" But
The Call of the Carpenter is bringing |
tens of thousands of poor church men,
bers to an understanding Of the social |
revolution.
Tho BLACKWELL Island Edition sens