Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-06
great Industrial problems Of the day
Is set forth In the following para

so sot AO o. II tue AoiioWAIiH para
Now we want the Golden Rule
DO unto others as you would
have Athem to do unto you.'A and
Christ's saying Thou shalt 1iove
they neighbor as thyself." set up
In factories and applied to the to-.
tai personnel, from stockholders,
directors and president to the IN
skilled day worker, We want to
exaH the word of the prophet
Micah: What doth Jehovah re-
quire Of thee. but to do Justly, to
love kindness and to walk humbly
with thy God" We want a con-
Germ for the individual life, which
is basic in the teacing Of Jesus, to
have = controlling place in indus
trial relations. &. y
The commercial spirit, So
called, can. be escaped only as
men consciously work to produce
from the motive of service. Once
again the object OF industry, II
Christian, is to meet great human
needs. to lift the level of the life
Of all, to make it possible for the
largest number to have the best
possible chance at life. All who
work in a Christian atmosphere,
which is elevating and inspiring
and which brings out the best
that is in them. The Christian
principle takes one step farther,
and leads to the primary motive
of industry. Is the motive OF
profits, which is the primary mo-
tive OF modern enterprise, a
Christian motive, and ought it not
DO %supplanted by or rigidly sub
ordinated to Christ's great motive
OF service? Here is a world Of
people, human beings with eter-
nal destinies. They have great
needs, material and spiritual:
they. have to feed, clothe, house,
transport, educate and recreate
themselves and their families, and
to develop the Godlike within.
them. That is the real meaning
Of agriculture. rai.r oad.ng, mani.
featuring, education and religion.
Everybody, therefore, who has
any part in these processes has a
sacred calling, and ought to work
with the same motive and spirit
as the true minister and mission
airy who minister to the religious
needs of men.
The sentiments expressed there ar,
admirable. They must be shared b,
very person who looks beyond selfisl
Iggrandizement and regards as a sub
ect Of vital interest to him the wei,
are Of all who are engaged in tn,
:reat productive work of the world
That this should be the attitude O
very Church goes without saying.
But the church, like every othe!
has to deal, not onl,
With ultimate aims, but with ways an,
means? How car the church assis
'est in bring to pass that complet,
understanding and that earnest co
operation for the common good which
s indicated in the sentences quoted !
There exists a marked tendency t,
the church in the contro
of the day by calling upon i
% make decisions regarding item
are in dispute. The church 1
to declare itself in favor Of thi
that policy in industry, in com
nerce, in finance, in politics.
If the church is to be called to solv
he great problems which arise i
these several fields, it must,be in
position to conduct adequate investi
cations of each as it arises. And, a
activities of the church must b
carried on by means of individual.
church must be prepared to fin
it's membership those who hav
sufficient expert knowledge of tn
subjects under consideration to b
able to investigate intelligently an
imparitially and to decide justly. !
this the function of the church? Ans
if it is, where shall the line be drawn
Does not acceptance of this principl
the diversion of the churc
from its function as a religious organ
ization to a function more scientif
than religious? [
1t sees that the church may find /
the ideals set forth in the first pars
graph quoted above, the Golden Rul
and the summary of Micah. it will fin
field limited only by the p%ossibilitie
of human nature itself, and such a
ample opportunity for the use of i,
energies that there will be neithe
time nor need for it to attempt t
solve the separate pfoblems whic
If the church is successful i
establishing among those who CON
within the scope of it's influence tn
attitude which Isl set. forth as it's idea
it may we'll leave the details of a
policies to be worked out, strictly /
that spirit, by agencies created spet
tally for that purpose, and which. fc
that reason, must be more competer
to deal with those details than tn
church itself car possibly be.
i A KINGS CURIOS.
Probably a few of the thousand
who visit Windsor Castle every yea