The Republican journal., 1920-02-12
North Congregational Church.

III DclldSI IudI IuC CuuICu has not got Cle
ear of the working classes, and, more
over, has no "Social Message" for these
troublous times. The statement was
simply one of those sweeping general
statements so often made by public
speakers and which when [analized ,are
found to be wide of the mark. The
church has definite social creed and has
social message. It stands
1-For equal rights and complete JUS
tice for all men in all stations of life.
2-For the protection of the family, by
the single standard of purity, uniform
divorce laws, proper regulation of mar
riage and proper housing.
3-For the fullest possible development
for every child, especially by the pro-
VISION OF proper education and recreation.
4-For the abolition of child-labor.
5-For such regulation of the condi-
tlons of toll for women as shall safe
guard the physical and moral health of
the community.
6-For the abatement and prevention
of poverty.
For the protection of the individual
and society from the social, economic
and moral waste of the liquor traffic.
& For the conservation of health.
9CFor the protection of the worker
from dangerous machinery, occupational
disease, injuries, and mortality.
10-For the right of all men to the op-
portunity of self-maintenance, for safe
guarding this right against encroach-
ments of every kind, and for the protec-
ton OF workers from the hardships of
enforced unemployment.
1l-For suitable provision for the old
age of the workers, and for those inca
pacitated by injury.
12-For the right of EMPLOYEES and
employers alike to organize and for ade-
quate means OF conciliation and arbitra-
tion in industrial disputes.
13-For release from employment one
day in seven.
14-For the gradual and reasonable re.
duction of the hours of labor to the low.
est practicable point, and for that degree
OF leisure for all which is a condition of
the highest human life.
15-For living wage as a minimum in
every industry, and for the highest wa ae
that each industry can afford,
16-For new emphasis on the appli-
cation of Christian principles to the
acquisition and use of property, and for
the most equitable division of the product
OF industry that can ultimately be de-
vised.
To the working men and women of
Belfast very cordial invitation is ex-
tended to attend the North Church next
Sunday morning when a social message
will be delivered by the pastor, Rev. A.
c. Elliott, who will speak on "The So
cialism of Jesus" This is a message nc
one should fail to hear. Every man who
is interested in social questions and who
believes in the great underlying princi-
pies of democracy should make it mat
ter of duty to be present. Remember the
church is not back number. She is
alive to the perils that confront US ct this
hour and has MESA ge which it is of vi.
tai Importance for all men to hear So
loist, Miss Mitchell ;>chorus choir.
Coleridge's ''Ancient Mariner" the
first of a series of lectures on "The Reli.
gious Messages of the Poets," given il
the North Church by Rev. A c. Elliott
on the evening of Jan. 25 was so greatly
enjoyed by those who heard it that it is
expected there will be large audience
present to hear the second lecture next
Sunday evening at 730 The subject o.
the lecture will be Shakespeare's ''Tem.
pest' when the deep moral and religious
teaching of this wonderful work of the
master mind in the realm of literature
will be interpreted Every student Of
Shakespeare in Belfast should plan to be
present.