Christianity and the Labor MovementSherman, French, 1912 - 108 páginas |
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... thing that God's Son , when he came as a Man , came also as a Carpenter . Labor's task is also the perfecting of humanity . The human race , like the physical universe , is ir raw material . And in daily toil , not only commodities ...
... thing that God's Son , when he came as a Man , came also as a Carpenter . Labor's task is also the perfecting of humanity . The human race , like the physical universe , is ir raw material . And in daily toil , not only commodities ...
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... things by which civilizations live and die and the kingdom of heaven prevails . In these char- acters the labor movement relates itself , all but identifies itself , with the vitality and progress of the kingdom of Christ . In that ...
... things by which civilizations live and die and the kingdom of heaven prevails . In these char- acters the labor movement relates itself , all but identifies itself , with the vitality and progress of the kingdom of Christ . In that ...
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... things . " At the last analysis labor means the laborer . ” Second , because labor- ers are the rule , and capitalists the exception . As Professor Ely says , " The labor movement represents mankind as it is represented by no other ...
... things . " At the last analysis labor means the laborer . ” Second , because labor- ers are the rule , and capitalists the exception . As Professor Ely says , " The labor movement represents mankind as it is represented by no other ...
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... things . Exhausting labor and the menace of poverty , the break - up of household regularity , the clat- ter of traffic and transportation , the brilliancy , variety and excitement of life in the modern city , CHURCH AND WAGE - EARNERS 15.
... things . Exhausting labor and the menace of poverty , the break - up of household regularity , the clat- ter of traffic and transportation , the brilliancy , variety and excitement of life in the modern city , CHURCH AND WAGE - EARNERS 15.
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... things will be made right in heaven . " Or , as Ruskin puts it , “ You knock a man into the ditch and then tell him to remain content in the position in which Providence has placed him . " Perhaps it is nearer the truth to say that the ...
... things will be made right in heaven . " Or , as Ruskin puts it , “ You knock a man into the ditch and then tell him to remain content in the position in which Providence has placed him . " Perhaps it is nearer the truth to say that the ...
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Christianity and the Labor Movement (Classic Reprint) William Monroe Balch Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 6 - And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom...
Página 63 - To us it seems that the churches must stand— For equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life. For the right of all men to the opportunity for self-maintenance, a right ever to be wisely and strongly safeguarded against encroachments of every kind. For the right of workers to some protection against the hardships often resulting from the swift crises of industrial change.
Página 68 - For the gradual and reasonable reduction of the hours of labor to the lowest practicable point, and for that degree of leisure for all which is a condition of the highest human life. For a release from employment one day in seven.
Página 67 - For such regulation of the conditions of toil for women as shall safeguard the physical and moral health of the community; For the suppression of the "sweating system...
Página 22 - IT is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. The brutalest black African cannot bear that he should be used unjustly. No man can bear it, or ought to bear it.
Página 53 - ... in the state which is best governed and possesses men who are just absolutely, and not merely relatively to the principle of the constitution, the citizens must not lead the life of mechanics or tradesmen, for such a life is ignoble, and inimical to virtue.
Página 10 - A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that Fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Página 62 - We deem it the duty of all Christian people to concern themselves directly with certain practical industrial problems. To us it seems that the churches must stand — "For equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life.
Página 11 - Some irregularity in employment is doubtless inevitable; but in the main irregularity is remediable. It has been overcome with great profit to both employer and employee in important businesses which have recognized the problem as one seriously demanding solution. Society and industry need only the necessary incentive to secure a great reduction in irregularity of employment. In the scientifically managed business irregularity tends to disappear. So far as it is irremediable it should be compensated...
Página 22 - What is injustice ? Another name for disorder, for unveracity, unreality; a thing which veracious created Nature, even because it is not Chaos and a wastewhirling baseless Phantasm, rejects and disowns. It is not the outward pain of injustice ; that, were it even the flaying of the back with knotted scourges, the severing of the head with guillotines, is comparatively a small matter. The real smart is the soul's pain and stigma, the hurt inflicted on the moral self.