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yields to the productive efforts of man, they  
allow themselves to be governed by their emo- * *
tions and espouse exactly the same doctrines ‘
as do those who are avowedly seeking the
overthrow of both our Church and our Civiliza-
tion. If they succeed, the fact that their inten-      
tions were good won’t serve to mitiigate the ené
suing disaster, or excuse the part t ey have ha
in bringing it about. h C h h      
What, then, is the duty of t e hurc to t e
Social Order? V    
For some years past a considerable part of R  
the members of the ministry, a considerable part
of the publications of the Church, have devoted _ O D
their time to the preaching, not of Christian E
love, but of class hatred. Instead of pointing ` BY
out the forward march of the race under the S. WELLS UTLEY
teachings of the Christian religion, they have President and General Mana er
magnined its denciencies, have emphasized its The Detrdt Steel Castin Comg an
shortcomings and its lack of perfection, in such 1 g P y
a way as to arouse animosity and retard that Chairmen Beard ef Trustees
progress which is admittedly all too slow. Obvi- First Cengresetienel Chureh
ously, they should cease such tactics, should D¢tr<>it,Mi¢his¤¤
discontinue proclaiming the identical doctrines Member Neriimei Advisory Ceimeii
Eponlwhich thfz gommunist relies to bring about Amerieeii Liberty League
is c ass revo u ion.
It is impossible for the Church, through its A
physical manifestations, to affect directly the * * *
action of its people. No pastor can be present
to guide any single one of his hundreds of
parishioners in making those decisions which An Address before the
must be made every day of our lives. They _ _ _ _
come in the home, in the midst of a business M1¤h1s¤¤ASS¤¢1¤t1¤¤¤fo¤¤sre-
conference, at the end of a telephone wire, or g;;_1;iOnal(]hu;·;;hes
more often than not in the silent hours of the
night, when the conscious mind seeks rest in jackson, Michigan
slumber, and the subconscious mind so rear-
ranges the brain cells that with the coming of — May ZL 1935
consciousness the solution of the problem is
apparent. But the Spiritual Church can control
these things! It can, and it does, so build charac- emo
ter that when these cells are rearranged they are ,,9 
rearranged in patterns which conform to the  
_ teachings of Jesus Christ. This, then, is the duty C  {Pi Sl
of the Church and its ministers, to cease wasting  '°"`iw 
time on the superficial, and devote its energy to 4,* Y L?)
the great fundamental problem of building
Christian character. The duty of the Church
is to make men and women of better and finer
character, and only as it accomplishes this ob- ·
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Document N0. 43
June, ross