The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-02-06

every age. What he failed to ob-
 serve is that society is anchored to i the means whereby it makes it's liy-
 ing and how it gets it's bread. With
 those means provided for us through
 ( profit system, it is naturally ill.
 tvitable that the profit system taiat ] inc strongest ideals and the noblest sentiments That is the all power
 fdl urge of the economic factor
 which as much inspires and affects
 latriotic and national actions as it
 affects religion and the church.
 The main impulse of human be-
 ings is to prolong existence arc the
 basic manner in which they do SC
 shall of necessity feature every one
 of the mental, moral or political in-
 stitutions that exist. As that system
 is the profit sysetm, all our institu-
 tions have to partake of this ma terial foster father whether w VIII
 or no.
 We cannot mention today any i person who is not resting his fame more upon what he gets for the 1 doing than what he has done The amount of money man makes will l be far more important factor ill establishing his responsibility than aught else and although the ways i of some men of millions may be as i filthy as sewer rat, the fact that
 they have millions prevents criticism ! It is wealth not charity that GOV
 -Sula.,a multitude of inquities. We 1 adjudge modern authors to their l inches in the Temple of Fame by | the amount of money they make by ! their work, and the high price of a 1 painting establishes it at once in its 1 position in the world or art
 The soul of the Rev Taylor is . bUrdened with the fact that social
 responsibilities such as stirred the
 mind and soul and eloquence or
 Christ are wholly ignored by his
 latter day followers. But he over ! looks the fact that what has been l done is to adapt and adjust the 1 teachings which have been handed down from that remote evangelical period to the more complex require ments of our civilization. It has 1 long ago been decided that present
 day society cannot literally follow i the gospels and it is far more re- 1 spectable and decent to make the gospels accomodate their teachings 1 to modern society. The frequent complaints made by sincere and
 most earnest preachers that their l churches are empty, while they 1 cudgel their brains as to how they shall fill them, merely point to the i incompatibility of giving the husks
 for the Bread of Life. It would appear that Spencer's remark that the age has the religion which is best suited to it, should receive more attention from clerical ideal ists. The fact that God and Nam mon may be identified in modern life has been most nobly illustrated by such venerable authorities as John D. Rockefeller and host ot others. The absurdity of encour- aging a literal belief in that admoni- tion that it is as hard for a rich
 man to enter the kingdom of heaven eye of a needle should at once strike any person who considers the wonderful benefactions with which the holy and pious rich have endow- ed the churches and aiding them selves in proving the danger of too
 hastily accepting doctrines which
 may have been easy enough of ac- ceptance in church where all
 things were common but which are
 intolerably revolutionary in an age
 wherein the community of things is possible only in the stress of war. We can appreciate the fact today | that the caution to love ones neigh | bor as oneself and to do to others
 as We would that they should do to
 us is out of place when profits accu-
 mulate through the monopolization
 of property, and the artificially higher costs of living receive the
 sanction of the very best the most
 pious and most religious people The ] form of the Golden Rule that win
 find it's way into circulation has to