Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-25

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 DEMOCRACY FAILS BECAUSE CHURCHES FAIL"
 Measured by it's yaunted ideals and by its unexamped opportunities" says Dr. Adoph A. BerIe "our democracy is the stpdest the most inefficient and the most Judi crous exhibition of moral imbecity the world have ever seen"
 The critic responsible for this vigorous attack is a sober Congregational minister who thus sums up the re- suit of lifetime of work observation and reflection
 Dr. Berle has occupied many Congregational pulpits in New England and formerly professor of applied Christianity in Tufts College He recently won wide spread attention by remarkable book called Chris
 snty and the Social Rage" filled with frank and fear less criticism of American life in many phases.
 His comments the opportunity of the church today, and its failure rise to them and particularly incisye and drastic. They remind one of Winston ChurchiIs arraignment of the church in his great novel "The In side of the Cup" But Dr. Bere goes even further than Mir Churchill in his conception what the church should behe vital regenerang force of societya society that is wasting it's energies lack of central dominating moral force. And Dr. Berle speaks from the inside"
 In an interview simplifying some of his views on wealth and social justice he the churches unfayoraby with the very public they are supposed to guide
 "The public he says, lis getting more and more into the habit of asking rich man. Where did you get it? How often does the church ask the same question of one of its members?"
 He is mortified at "the spectacle of presentday Chris
 ans- -churchgoers and partakers the Holy Communl- on-connivng at every form of immortality. vice and opp presson and going unrebuked by their spiritual leaders
 He declares that this shameful condition has been brought about by the abandonment through firm al
 ance between the church and the properyovning class of the single imperative mandate of Christ tha Christians adopt the as the law of life
 Originally the Christian brotherhood meant division of goods with neither wealth poverty But "as Chris tanty became identified with churchdom, the theory was set up that Christian duty extended no further than spiritual matters and that whatever the properyownns sroup did aid the poor the material things of life was in the nature of credtconferring benevolence" With the church paying little attention to the poets of wealth, things have drred far fron Chris tan moorings that are confronted with of church members who are deriving their income from renting property for immoral purposes from permittne abomnable conditions prevail their enements from killing off thousands of children yearly their factories and if you consult the list Of pewrents in Christian churches and the citys dodgers you will be amazed to find how often the found each list.
 And the real gravity of the situation lies in this that the Christian churches party the fraud and hy- pocrisy"
 He does not profess to believe that the propertyess groups any better than the wealthy But they are wronged by those who have the power to wrong them, with the church passvey encouraging the injustice.
 The whole nation, an society he argues must be generated And for that regeneration he has patent remedy in the way of laws or new institutions
 What need" he concludes "is simply release the by which society itself and give them chance do their Lucrative and developing ser vice mankind"
 And the spirit that is needed for the redemption of industries, politics. law courts schools and thing else is 10 from the churches which work in the of and therefore in the heart civza- ton.
 "The church" he says, must the simplicity of the New Testament, teaching and telling the truth, the whole truth nothing butthe truth" keeping ever in mind the eternal contrast between property and hui many, and providing spiritual regulation" of property for the sake human freedom
 Nobody will object Harry Thaw running around loose, long he doesn't shoot any fellow rogues who may be more use the world than he