Evening star., 1923-07-23
TRADE PEACE PLEA
! MADE TO BAPT|STS
World Alliance at Stockholm
Told Industrial Justice
Should Be Goal.
Nv the Associa ted Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, July 23.-In a decla-
ration presented to the Baptist
World Alliance this afternoon the
baptists of the world are called upon
to strive for industrial freedom with
the same earnestness as they have
striven for political and religious
liberty in the past. Cooperation
rather than competition between
capital and labor is proposed as one
means to this end. along with
share for the laborer in the profits,
direction and control of industry.
The statement upon industrial re-
lations. offered by DR.. j. c. Carlisle
of Folkestone, England one of the
leading Baptists of the world, said
in part:
Man is overwhelmed by the
weight and wonder of the new
knowledge of the world. Inventive
genius has arisen to the occasion
within the last century. Its rise de-
serves to displace from our school
books the dates of wars and the
names of warriors Palissy the pot
ter, Davy and Edison with their
lamps, Simpson with his chloroform,
Ford with his car. and Marconi with
his waves have redeemed life from
its Sordid limitations. lndustrialism
has Il benefcent and beautiful min
istry.
Peace. Not sItcyClutiOn.
"Baptists advocate peace. not rev.
olutiuu. We are the pioneers of free
dom and must secure it industrially
as well as religiously and politl-
cally. Freeing the slave in the Brit
iSh empire was but first instalment
To new problems we must apply
Christ's basic principles: The SUI
preme value of the individual soul,
the obligation of service to others.
the stewardship of life. A new con-
science is being quickened and Eng
lands tax bill for social service was
1000 millions of dollars last year.
Here are some reasonable aims for
the near future: Cooperation in place
OF competition. and a share for Tabor
in the direction and control as well
rs the profits of industry. But So
cialiSm proposes state ownership and
control of both production and the
means and distribution of production.
What motive force will replace per-
sonal advantage? May a citizen, dis
liking the work assigned to him,
leave the country?'
Urge Religious Liberty.
BaptiStS of the world not only seek
absolute religious liberty for thcm-
selves. but an equal right for all other
believers and believers to wor-
ship God according to the dictates of
their conscience, or refuse to wor-
ship God ft all, DIR. E. Y. Mullins of
Louisville, Ky. president of the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary and of the Southern Baptist
convention. told the alliance this
afternoon in an address on The Bap-
tist Conception of Religious Liberty.
Declaring that religious liberty ex-
cludes certain things and implies GER
tain other things, DIR. Mullins said
that Il excluded all state authority in
religion, as where the state puts its
power and prestige behind one form
of religion and merely tolerates 9TH
ers; denies the right of the state to
impose taxes for the support of one
form of religion against the con-
science of the people; the imposition
of religious creedS by ecclesiastical
authority, centralized ecclesiastical
government. priestly mediators and
the sacramental power of salvation
and infant baptism.