The sun., 1919-06-23

cie State. There fs no religion which
can claim Immunity from the liberaliz-
Ing influence OF advancing Professionalism.
No Americans the moral Leadership OF
Woodrow Wilson 10 of far greater au-
lhority than that OF some italian bishop
who IL afraid Of the advancement OF
Christian thought and modern ideas In
his own morally backward nation and
who 10 possessed with foolish notions
Of his own political Importance.
Decentralization must take account Of
the progress of the age, and all relig-
Ions, Catholic and Protestant. must be
willing 10 slough or certain old ideas
which time. the war and advancing civil
lisation have proven false"
Prohibition a Moral Miracle.
DIR. Richmond described prohibition
as moral miracle" and its coming he
hailed MS being In certain respects like
the coming of Christ.
"In the beginning was opposed TO
national prohibition" he said. "In the
Episcopal Church bishops drink cock
| tails, priests have their whiskey lockers
at their clubs and the laity hate the
very idea of prohibition. / was In favor
Of local option or State prohibition, but In
recent days have seen the moral impu-
dence and outrageous vindictiveness Of
the liquor interests. and / hope the
brewing and whiskey power In our ma
| ton will be wiped out.
1.-THE American liquor interests have
sought to dictate to the moral sentiment
of our citizens without any right or
moral authority In 30 doing The liquor
| traffic has sought to overpower the
moral and spiritual forces OF America
The American people need to learn that
I al Inf, ~ n
than those forces and interests which
bank on mere physical appetities. greed,
business success and lust"
DR.. Richmonds review Of the work OF
| Trinity parish was entirely condemna'
tory. He said that the healing re-
ported to be done by Hickson belongs to
the realm OF camoufiage and religious
chicanery.
Trinity Church has never had in my
lifetime a reputation for laying the axe
at the root of our great American prob
Iems," he said. For years Trinity Sas
had a bad name in all centres Of real
social and Industrial reform. For years
her vile and degrading tenements vert
a stencil 20 our Christian ideas OF how
Gods poor should be treated.
Trinity Corporation.
Trinity has always stood for charity
and philanthropy and not for a radical
change In the worlds attitude toward
the poor and industrially oppressed, and
so such a corporation OF financiers AND
rich lawyers will readily uphold a poor
Englishman who has an itch for motor
iety and wants to lay his hands on
some one.
TT Is not such decisions and hypocri
sizes which Jesus or his people rejoice
In. but far rather in the organized
church aroused to a sense of its obliga
lions toward the plain people to such Q
degree that when great masses Of thes'
wage earners strike for better industrial
conditions and for greater opportunit,
to have a hand IN the cooperative man
aRement then we find the church on tn,
side OF labor and not industrial plu
tocracy.
christianity is superior to the State
II is In the world to make people live
II seeks to capture Wall Street. not 4
dominate country cemeteries. Tn,
church must go into the revolutionar,
movements OF the age in order to wir
the world for truth and Righteousness"