The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-01
ORGANIZING THE UNsKIELED.


 and become fixed in their ways. The NEW must always overcome the OLD. The OLD gives way to Ihe NEW through pain and through travail at every step.
 Tn the writer's boyhood the churches were given to frequent Reviva;s of Religion. The resident parson, usually aided by specialists in revival effort, would exhort sin ners to repentance against the judgement day. In the arbored open angushed and much labored prayers asccnded to the Most High. Morning. afternoon and evening loud preachment; were thundered tt the young and erring ones. The pious and godly men with great earnestness of manner taught ter rifying and damning fatalism. They preached a ponderous theology based upon a geocentrie idea or craation that is, that the earth q I sea. was made the center of the universe by q voice -pcaking out of the void. and that the -un, the moon and ali the myriad stars be leweling the Armament were made 5n the same period of six days and set in the bending skies for the
 
 val season with program to bring every sheep into the fold of God. At the clo of each service sin ners wer invited. nay urged to come forward to the altar. Here much 7lnctions singing and praying was 0one The singing had a certain folk rythm that was magnetizing and,-for the moment, nt,-conVinc- ing One of those grand old hymns ran 'Tis the Old Time Religion, and It's Good Enough for Me-. Then. if a sinner became convert ed. and his sins wa he'd away as it were said. he would lift his head and those nearby could sec new light shining in his face. ana they forthwith set up great rejoicing shouting and incantation.
 But the young and erring ones were attending echool in the other sea on. There we were learning the Nebular Theory, and of atoms anG molecules Mind you so short d time ago we were bcin" taught of ions and clectroEs. In astro- nomy we were being taught the he liocentrict idea of the universe, or that our sun. and other even great .er suns are the centres of number ,ed systems Of world greater than ours. that after all the earth is but a card member of a union of other .aarlns.
 1t came about that year by veal IS the revival seasons came there were fewer erring ones in the gard en of life inclined to como forward and join the "old time religion Skopticism grew apace despite th' increased prayerfulness of the god ly. It was blamed upon the devil when the blame if blame it was, he forged upon the schools.
 The point is here, that thu churches had to change. The, had to teach a theology that woulc sqaaro in a way rationally knowl facts and experiences. l, person ally cannot say how the churche have contrived to progre S. l can not imagine those old war horse a1f the Lord giving up their sizzlin lakes of fire ard birthstone.
 fancy that tEe churches advance or their Religion Forward. has bee wrought by the younger puipiteerS Ii remains that, Interpreting, the had to lay off reviving the old, an reGenerate themselves
 Unionism face; similar crisi: It must progress. IL must progres somewhere beside in official reports Ii must change It must catch in step of new conditions. Do not tn great ma of unorganized worker Know of the unions and the bent fits accruing to protected members
 With labor organized as at pr' sent is there limit in number beyond which the benefit Of tn sinion cease to flow? If not tho aay are there great numbers oi @