Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-11-21
Commission On Temperance And
Social Service

Social Service.
This report of the commission or
Temperance and social service was
read before the conference by Bishor
Canncn
The -Airch of Jesus Christ must
face all the facts of life, everywhere
and always, honestly, courageously
and with unwavering faith, hope and
love. She knows that the teaching of
her Master gives the only adequate,
final answer to all the problems. in
Guiding those of class and race.
which perplex and disturb the nee.
Piles of all lands.
1t is undoubtedly true that the
preaching of the necessity of person.
al repentance and faith-personal
salvation-was never mbrc greatly
needed that it is today. Men can not
be saved from sin in the mass, or
by any man-made social program,
no matter how elaborate or caeful-
wrought out. Selfish materialism
which recognizes no law but might,
and no good but things which perish
with the using, is thoroughly I'M
Christian, whether advocated ant.
practiced by the German Kaiser, Will
helm, of the German Socialist, Karl
Marx. Tyranny and injustice are
equally as sinful and as destructive
of human rights whether practiced
by capitalistic trusts or by labor
unions. The deciples of Jesus must
proclaim the dominance of the spiri-
final in oil ha lot.
mans life CONSISTENT not in the album
dance of the things which he possess
SETH" "What shall it profit a man if
he shall gain the whole world and lose
his soul?" 81 am the Way, the Truth
and the Life, no man cometh unto the
Father but by me-" This is and ever
must be the dominant note of the
church's message.
Jesus Christ Emphasized Soc;a.
Duties.
But while repentance and tifah are
absolutely Fundamental l,how narrow,
inadequate, even unfaithful, is the
preaching which ignores or fails to
emphasize the vivid, realistic, posi
tive teaching of Jesus that in the
final judgment the genuineness of
our repentance and of our faith in
Him will be tested by the dominance
of love in our relations with our fell
lowmen. We must manifest an acticc,
loving concern for the hungry, the
thirsty, the sick, the imprisoned, the |
needy and meet our full responsible
lily for social and economic condi- |
tions in the world about us. The So
cial gospel.
Many plans of economic readjust- |
ment, even reconstruction have bee,.
proposed and some are receiving the |
test of experiment. The industrial or
der is not fixed one, and we may |
expect changes to occur in the futulI |
rs they have occurred in the past. We
have heard with special interest of the
experiments which have been made in
what is called industrial democracy. |
We believe that any satisfactory, per
mancnt plan must be the result of |
free, fran kconferences; of smypa-
thetic, voluntary cooperation Of the
majority of all those engaged in any
way in an yindustry. No industrial
system can be permanent in which
the methods and conditions of pro-
duction and distribution are unfair to
any of the parties concerned, whether
thew be employers, employees, pur-
chasers of ultimate consumers.
1t should be clearly recognized
that in the present day strife be-
tween wage workers and manufac-
..,t 10, - L,
fessional workers have frequently
been selfshly ignored, so that I'M
trained, unskilled workmen are given
better suppore than highly trained,
experienced accountants, teachers and
ministers. No adjustment is fair which
fails to provide that the third party,
the innocent public, shall not suffer
because of disagrcemcnts between
capital and labor. Production ana
service should not cease because of
industrial disputes. Work should con-
tinue while fair settlement is be-
ing wrought out.
For an admirable statement of
principles we call attention again to
the Social Greed which was ordered
to be printed in the Discipline of the
German Conference in 1918. The key
note of that creed is struck in the
first article, which declares: Equal
rights and equal Justice of all men
i'll all stations of life"
Yes, Paris Green Helped Win War.
Washington, Aug. 19.-Paris Green
helped win the war. So did a Little
Kittie Karr and Dinned Bell. All
of them were in the army, according
to file cards i'll the Bureau Of War
Risk Insurance, Green lives in Hunt
ington, w. Va, Little Kittie Karr