Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-13
THE NEED OF THE HOUR

matters oil religion. communities
and industries, where right motives
are paramount, have no serious la
Dor problems.
When both employer and wage
worker honestly believe that we are
here in this world to serve others,
the labor problem will be solved.
but not until then. We employers
should learn to give up, and labor
should wake up. However, neither
of us will do it except as we are
actuated by religious motives. Both
groups are largely actuated by self
lsh motives at the present time.
Moreover, this is tremendously
short-sighted selfshness. During
the scramble over a division of what
is already produced, we overlook
the great Importance of increasing
production, thereby cutting down
the tree to get the cherries. We all
need a new outlook of life, a new
political policy and a new social
policy. The old politics founded
upon fear and striving only
, for protection has fulfilled it's USE
fulness. We need a new politics
: based upon faith and striving for
production.
/ Meanwhile, what is happening to
I our churches? They are going to
! seed. They are already deserted by
( the working classes. and are being
/ deserted by the children of the en-
ploying classes. Great capital in
vestments in land and buildings are
being utilized only a few hours a
! week. The ministers are being paid
/ starvation wages, and the whole
church industry lacks pep and i'm
agination. And yet, the church is
/ the only organization in existence
/ for generating right motives in man.
| Schools develop intellect, theaters
and novels foster passion, but the
church is the sole organization
which develops those good motives
OF love, sympathy, hope and inspira-
ton, upon which the industrial SAL
Walton of the world depends.
All men are human. whether
l nfted States senators or humble
workmen. We are actuated not by
our intellects, but by our emotions.
We are guided by love or by hate.
by sympathy or by jealousy, by hope
or by fear. The political and labor
agltators, the partisan newspapers,
the everyday movie, and the other
agencies which develop hate. ieal-
ousy and fear, are running rampant
to-day The one great organization
which has the machinery and op-
portunity to develop the construc-
tive motives of love, sympathy and
hope, is asleep. Yet there still ex.
lists energy enough in the churches
to enable them to fight one another
Preachers, like politicians. are not
so much interested in increasing the
output of religion as they are in the
division of the religion already pro.
duced.
J I am not appealing for one com.
bined denomination. / recognize
that Catholicism has features which
VIII arouse the emotions in masses
of people who could never be
reached by the methods of Pro-
testantism. l realize that Protestant
ism has features which will arouse
the emotions of many who never
, could Ice reached by the teachings
of Catholicism. The same is true oi
, Judaism, Mohammedanism and ev.
cry other ism" Until the time
, particular color and one particular
: food. there still will be an oppor
tunity for the Congregations
) Church, the Presbyterian Church
the Baptist Church, and the variou!
J other forms of churches. NV on,
plea is that every State House anC
factory and church have for it,
, motto, Live and let live" Ther
, let them all use their energy for in
I creasing production instead of con
! suming it in fighting over what Il
: already produced.
r When Jesus told His disciples t,
| give to him that asketh of thee
, He did not mean that they shoul,
r die of starvation. He simply tries
: to emphasize the great Fundamental
r truth that life consists not in hoard
| ing or living on what is boarded
4 but life consists in working and us
s ling what one produces. 1t wa
r Jesus method of calling the world
!. attention to the fact that the thing
e which exist are temporary, and a