The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-04-09

tiSS ASt thSia NN
and there be r~econciled," and PauPs
references, as "The Church at Ephe-
sus',, 1.-The Church at Corinth," ETC.,
evidently meant the whole number of
those in any community protesting
Christ.
Very little has been written or Is
known about the church for the first
300 years after Christ. 1t is said that
during the early life of the church the
councils or meetings were composed
of all the members, presbyters, and
bishops in any community.
The Council Of Nice held A. ID. 1875
was the first general council held by
the Christian church. 1t was COM
posed almost wholly of bishops and
others in authority and after that time
the laity were excluded from the coun-
ellis.
When Constantine recognized chris.
tianity about the year 305 he protect
ed the christians from persecution and
united church and state and from that
time Rome Sat on her seven hills and
from her throne of beauty ruled the
world" for a thousand years. Con-
stantine, the ruler Of pagan Rome,
called the Nicene Council in 1926 and
he. himself a pagan, presided at its
first session. At that council the
doctrine OF consubstantiality was pro-
mulgated and "Arianism" was put
down. Fifty-six years later, at the coun-
ell of Constantinople, A. ID. 381, that
doctrine was altered and confirmed
and declared to be the doctrine of the
church.
A system of taxation was instituted
for the support of the church as well
as the state. Education of the laity
was prohibited.
Many of the higher minded priests
and bishops protested against the sys-
tenn. Those who persisted in their
opposition were punished.
Some were even put to death be-
cause of their p~ersistency and John
Huss and Jerome of Prague were burn.
ed at the stake. The advocates Of
reform had grown so numerous when
Martin Luther was summoned to the
Diet of Worms and ordered to retract
o~r,suffer death they were able to pro-
tect him and save his life. After the
establishment of the protestant church
it became as energetic in suppressing
"heresy" and new thought as the uni
versal church had before it. Men and
women were driven from their homes
and their faith fortified them in BRAY.
ing the dangers of a new and untried
world to find a place where they could
worship God in accordance with their
conscience and belief.
Even here they could not escape and
witches" were burned; quakers i'm
prisoned; "schism" squelched, and
"heresy" put down by the iron fist Of
church authority.
Coming down to our times let us
consider the strife that is world wide
the struggle between labor and CAPT,
tai.
Capital, by it's ownership and con
troll of our public utilities has brought
about the conditions which confront
us. Capitalism, in it's strife for pro-
fits and dividends, is wholly RESPONSE
BILE for the peonage and degradation Of
our wage earners; for the undue in
fuence which corrupts our legislatures
and congresses; for our ~debauched
police; for child labor and for white
slavery. 1t, too, is responsible for
the condition of our homes and home.
less children in our large cities. New
York City ships her homeless children
into our western states by the car
load and puts them into homes from
the block where they are chosen by
number in much the same manner in
which the black slaves were sold into
slavery in a%nte-bellum days.
DR.. C. w. Woodward, health officer
for the District of Columbia, says,
"Ten per cent of all the recorded
births in the District of Columbia last
year (1912) were illegitimate. the
mothers being from Is to 20 years of
age in the majority of cases."
Those who say that socialism would
destroy the home and establish free
love had better stop and ask, Where
are we at NOW"
Is u Capital City and our Metrop-
oils much purer than Paris before the
French revolution or Rome in Nero's
palmiest days?
Socialism says that 1t is private
ownership and operation for private
profit that has brought these condi.
tons and that public ownership and
operation at cost will remove them. II
the diagnosis is correct the remedy is
sure and certain. Socialism would
put our children into schools instead
Of factories and women would not