Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-09
BAPTISTS FAVOR EXCLUSION
: OF MEMBERS WHO VIOLATE
GOLDEN RULE In INDUSTRY
Resolution Criticising Judges
and Officials Brings Vigor-
Gus Debate on Floor but
Wins by Close Vote

The church can set the world an
example as to it's view in settling
industrial troubles bv exclude: g
from memberships both laborers and
capitalists who. regardless of what
unions of uper-authorities may say,
refu~- to settle their differences in
harmony with the teachings of the
New Testament
This was the drastic recommends
ton contained in the temperance
and social work report which was
adopted Thursday morning by the
Georgia Baptist convention, in ses-
sion at the aptistItabernacle.
y A vigorous reply by DIR. L. G..
Hard ian, of Commerce, to Governor
Hardwick's attack upon the state
prohibition laws, and tn adoption
OF the temperance and social work
report, which also contained a para
graph declaring that the system of
electing judges and solicitors by pom
ular vote is wrong and ought to be
changed, were outstanding features
OF Thursday mornings session.
The temperance and social work
epor which was presented by Rev.
l.. A. Henderson, of Columbus, was
declared to contain the most drastic
recommendations OF any report
adopted by the convention in the
last twenty-five years. 1t rapped
mob violence as "diabolical and hell
lsh;" and asserted that leading church
people in the country district are
cognlzant of the liquor traffic and
are making no move to break it I'D.
Wins by Close Vote
Inc clause critjcizing the election
of judges and solicitors by popular
vote provoked a snappy debate and
was finally retained in the report
by vote of 60 to 81. 1t read:
This menace to justice will OBJ
tain just so long as court officials
are subjected to the temptation of
becoming petty politicians. Under
the present system, there will always
be few men who will keep their
ears to the ground The system of
electing judges and solicitors by
popular vote is wrong and ought
to be changed"
Discussing the prohibition ques.
ton, the report said:
I'VE shall never be able to build
a healthy sentiment or weld a very
potent influence in favor of prohi-
bltlon so long as the church, people
compromise themselves by patroniz-
ing law breakers, buying their wares
or engaging in the business with
them.
mot all the manufacturers Of
liquors, and not all the bootleggers,
are organically members of the
devils church. A goodly number of
them are members Of our. churches
They are leading church people who
own lands out in the country dis
trict where the boil weevil has de-
stroyed the cotton crop and where
no money crop has been discovered
to take its place, and who excuse
thei rtenantS on the ground that
they must make living Here is
our first problem to influence our
own members to support, the gov
eminent and it's laws
Plan to Check Industrial Strife
referring to industrial strife. the
report read: "One thing the church
ca ndo. 1t can demand that those
laborers and capitalists who are
members OF our churches, regardless
OF what unions or super-authorities
may say, settle their differences in
harmony with the teachings of the
New Testament; and when they re-
fuse to do it, set the world an ex-
ample as to the view of the church
about settling industrial troubles, by
excluding them from the church. )"
Continuing, however, the report
recommended an Industrial court
with authority to settle disputes be-
tween capital and labor This
courts dicision would be final I'M
less an appeal to the United States
supreme court would be allowed.
Mob violence was condemned as
the most barbarous, heathenish and
unChristian form of awlessness-as
a cancer on our body politics and a
disgrace to Christian civilization''-
and as a force which puts govern
ments, society, the church as the
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