The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-21
PROF. HEBRON, g TODAY, LETT CHURCH TO PREACH SOCIALISM.

That the gospel according to Jesus Christ. and the gospel according 70 Karl Marx. are not irreconcilable. but rather a complement to each other, was the theory entertained by Rev George Davis Heron, which resulted in his being dropped from the rolls of the Congregational church The Heron heresy case. excited a great deal of attention some thirteen years ago
 Prof. Herron was born in Monte zumas Ind. sixty-two years ago today, and was educated at Ripon College, in Wisconsin, followed by two years in Europe After becoming a Congre- eational minister he was pastor of churches In Lake City. Minn-. and Burlington, Ia, and in 1898 was ap- pointed professor Of applied Chris tisn1ty at Iowa College. It was there that he started his social crusade'' in which he delivered radical lectures on the relation of Christianity to ex- fstInE social cond1tions. His socialis- tic preachments naturally aroused op- position. and in 1900 he resigned from the college faculty
  ron married a college sweetheart, daughter of pr. A Everhard. Of Ri pom. Wis Mrs. Heron vas not in sympathy with her husband's social Istic views, and in 1901 the couple were divorced A little later Dr. Her. ron married. in New ork, Miss Carrie Rand, a wealthy woman v11o was an ardent believer in his scheme of so- ciaI salvation pr Herron, upon leaving the church. became a lectur- CT and writer on socialism. For some years the Herrons lived on the sec- ond Mrs Herronss beautiful New Jer- sey estate. but of late they have re- sided in Florence. Italy
 In a series of articles published in fhe Metropolitan Magazine last year socialism He believes that the pres ent organization of society is nearing it's end-that 1t is .san outworn husk. shattered and helpless. and near un- to dissolution-Y He adds It bears within itself its own seIf-destruction The contradictions of which 1t con- sists are increasingly obvious: nor can they much longer be bound together. And the state. as we have and know tt. continues its precarfous existence solely by virtue of the eatra-Iega1 and extra constitutions methods of its governors. The governments of today are practically carried on outside laws and constitutions; they are otherwise unable to sustain themselves. The hope of the capitalist political sys- tenn. if it endures. for another gener- afzon. will depend upon the fragrant 1aWfessness of such as Roosevelt and the Romanoffs And even this is due 10 the hypnosis which instituted pow CT. rooted in despotic past is able to exercise over the struggling peo- pies of the present If the people but knew it, they have but to touch the kingdoms of. the world and they would crumble as houses of cards. If la bor but knew it, the capitalist of to- day is affrighted and trembling. and weil-nigh inpotent as well. before the monster he has created Thus we are near unto the trial and tragedy Of a civilization that is not only corrupt to the core; it is senseless in motive and method. it's institutions incapable of spiritual service or progress. It is 3 civilization whose end is the making of profit rather than the making of men; a civilization in which men ex- ist for the things they produce for their masters; civilization whose doctrines and customs the spirit of man has long since outgrowr.
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