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RECEIVE a number . of periodicals
discussin"' the live questions - the
of
day fro~ many different viewpoints.
I have left a paper on my library
ble tonio-ht which calls attention to an
dress delivered to laboring men in one of
e great cities of this - ountry on the " homc
idal maniac," entitled " Jesus, the Work·
mg :Vian of Nazareth, on the Rights of
bor." I purpose, not to discuss its character at all tonight, but to address myself
to the text upon which this travesty is
based; and while I am always willing to
ccord to men differing from me sincerity,
-when intelligently and earnestly they express their views, I must think that misappr~hension, leading to misinterpretation,
bas -Often been the foundation of what to
my mind seems erroneous.
The text is the parable of the laborer, in
e 20th chapter of Matthew. The challenge
Ja to show that it is fair, equitable, just, to
y for one hour's labor as much as is paid
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r a whole day's labor. The mjsapprehen.on, to my mind, is in supposing that this
·bing makes it true that it is right to
one laborer for one hour's work, ened. In the same kind of work, other
lP being equal, as much as is paid the
er laborers for the whole day-in othe_
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ls, lt !air to pay no more to the latter
to the former?
OU. will note that the last verse of the
1oua _
chapter corresponds exactly with
laat Terse or this parable-"But many
. ~ first shall _be last, and the last shall
- - for the Kingdom of Heaven .... Let
traDater ourselves back to the time and
lillla of the people to whom this parable
, 8Doken. The day differed-it be"'an at
~ .k. ~ow this householder is to rep• ba ~ndard of universal righteous•1
called "the good man." " He
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that righteousness exists in the consensus
of human intelligence. Second, things in
this world are not right. Lastly, somewhere, somehow and at some time they
they must be made right. (Applause.)
They must be made right if only to vindicate a righteous Governor - the universe.
of
There is no difference of opinion as to
this fundamental judgment that is in each
man concerning questions of right and
wrong. Righteousness must be, then, with
the God of the universe as well as with
human intelligence, and it must be under·
stood that this householder, who is to represent the Governor of the universe, must
have an agreement with the righteousness
which addresses itself to your mind and
mine.
Here is where Calvinism broke
down, -on the doctrines of decree-predestination, foreordination. Even God cannot
make things right that are wrong. (Applause.) God does not make a thing true, but He speaks it ·because it is true, as true
as Himself.
Things in this world are not right-not
right in your circle or in mine. The ·p oor
are crushed by their environment, the rich
yield to temptation. The law •isn't right;
it has to go through an evolution which
will make it righteous. Often the good meet
with misfortune and the wicked with good
fortune. Do you propose to tell me that
this -is fair? I can find conditions in the
Christian church that a.re not right, although I am not a critic or a cynic. I have
always ·been a ~nd of the man who is
called a laboring man, though I hope we
are all la- orers-I mean the . laborer who
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has less chance and less· opportunity and
less c ompensation.
Somewhere, somehow a nd at some time
the wrongs of this world must be made
right. If this -were the only world I were
ever to know I could not certainly rever-
verse of the previous chapter is to find its
realization in the case of these last laborers
who are called first. It is not right to pay
people the same for one hour's work as for
a whole day's. There is much of that injustice in the world today, as witness wom•
en, who do not receive equal pay for equal
work with men. But-··Why stand ye here
idle in the market-place? Because no -man
hath hired us." That is, the people of the
eleventh hour represent the great class in
this world which has been treated unfairly.
The householder says: " I pay for hunting
for work as well as for the work that is
done." The most contented man in the
world is the one who knows that he has
steady, permanent, well paid work. There
is nothing harder than hunting for work
and not finding it. The parable of Dives
and Lazarus is in a way an approach to
what ought to be. Those who are unhappy
now must be happy later. The contemptuous attitude of those who are high now,
evinced for instance in race prejudice, must
be rectifie-d in the next world.
(The speaker then told of a man who had
lost his wife and children in a railroad
wreck and hunted in vain for work until a
man employed - im and •paid him $10 for
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one day's work.) You may call this compensation wage or charity, as you please,
but do you think the other laborers had any
right to complain?
I should be very sorry to feel that the
whole of compensation comes to any man in
this life. I say unto you: "Wait a little,
and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive." ·
ABOUT PURPLE HATS AND BLUE.
By Gerald Stanley Lee.
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evinced for instance in race prejudice, must
be rectified in the next world.
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lost his wife and children in a railroad
wreck and hunted in vain for work until a
man employed - im and paid him $10 for
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one day's work.) You may call this compensation wage or charity, as you please,
but do you think the other laborers had any
right to complain?
I should be very sorry to feel that the
whole of compensation comes to any man iri
this life. I say unto you: "Wait a little,
and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive." ·
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,rdS, is it fair to pay no more to tJ:utter
ID · to the former?
You will note that the last verse of ~he
,reTious chapter corresponds e~fctly with
e last verse of this parable-- But many
t are first shall be last, and the last shall
f1,rst, for the Kingdom of Heaven." Let
tran5fer ourselves back to the time and
ms of the people to whom. this parable
spoken. The day differed-it began at
o'clock. Now this householder is to repent a standard of universal righteouss· he is called "the good man." "He
th out in the morning to the marketce"-a sort of labor exchange. He evientli hired all he could find who came at
at - our. He still had . other work to ,be
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.one. and he went out at 9 o'clock and
nnd others and sent them to the vineyard,
d so again at noon, 3 and even 5 o'clock.
e only parties with whom he entered ina contract were those in the morning,
·ho were to work the entire day, and he
·eed with them for a penny. We must
dge of this penny by its value in the time
-w,h ich the parable was S!}Oken. -- It was
~Roman !}enny, worth about 15c, and perps a usual wage, as it is in Mexico today.
ese men were perfectly satisfied. If there
d been no other laborers there would
.ve ·been no complaint. With each of the
ers we have no agreement-only that
t they were to receive what was right.
d now, when the last came, he called
em and gave to them for the one hour's
rvice as much as he gave to those that
, contracted for the entire day.
Wherefore, there must be some reason
hy these last should have · een first. Here
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the key to the whole parable--"Whatsoer is right, that shall ye receive." There
th~ee suggestions underlying this. First,
ere 1s but one righteousness, in Heaven
on earth, throughout the universe and
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but He speaks it because it is true, as true
as Himself.
Things in this world are not right-not
right in your circle or in mine. The poor
are -crushed by their environment, the rich
yield to temptation. The law isn't right;
it has to go through an evolution which
will make it righteous. Often the good meet
with misfortune and the wicked with good
fortune. Do you propose to tell me that
this is fair? I can find conditions in the
Christian church that a.re not right, although I am not a critic or a cynic. I have
always ·b een a friend of the man who is
called a laboring ma~ough I_ hope we
are all laborers-I mem6 the laborer who
has less chance and less opportunity and
less compensation. .
Somewhere, somehow and at some time
the wrongs of this world must ·be made
right. If this were the only world I were
ever to know I could net certainly reverentially worship God and call him Father,
much less loving. I should absolutely find
an enigma in this life. I find instead in
this life an inevitable argument for another
life.
How shall this fairness be gained? In the
first place the men in the parable should
have kept their contract. But the last
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THE PRAYER
As we launch out this week on a
new undertaking, realizing its great
promises of blessing and appreciating
all its uncertainties, our hearts cry
out to Thee, 0 Great Executive, for
that guidance anu. protection which
we so much need and which ·has been
so graciously granted to us through
those most trying and <lifficult days
of the earlier part of our work.
May this mid-week gathering of the
people for the study and practice of
democracy be greatly blessed of Thee.
Help us to put our very ·b est into it.
Show us whereby we may make it a
great light in this community, pointin·g the way to genuine neighborliness in all the affairs and relationships of men.
Amen.
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ABOUT PURPLE HATS AND BLUE.
By Gerald Stanley Lee.
H ere is part of an essay which was
originally printed in " The Outlook,"
and which has since appeared in Mr.
Lee's great book, " Crowds." It is a1.
essay which should be read by every
employer of labor and by every man
and woman who desires to help folks
grow more useful.
BIG New England factory, not long
ago, wanted to ·g et nearer its raw ma•
terial, and moved to Georgia.
All the machine considerations,
better water power, cheaper labor, smaller
freight bills, and new markets, had argued
for moving to Georgia.
Long rows of new mills were · uilt and
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thousands of negroes were moved in and
thousands of shanties were put up, and the
men and the women stood between the
wheels. And the wheels turned.
There was not a thing that had not been
thought of except the men and women that ·
stood between the wheels.
The men and - women that stood , etween
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the wheels were, ·for the most part, strong
and hearty persons, and they never looked
anxious or abused, and they did as they
were told.
· .A:fill when Saturday night came, crowds of ·
th~m with their black faces, of the men and
:the~;women, of the boys and girls, might.
have :been seen filing out of the works with .,. ·
their week's wages.
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Should we not try to make people
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By GEORGI
shall be first and the first last in the ne
Q: If God cannot change everything, will
Q: If God is not just in this world, how
world?
you give me a list of the things he can and
can we expect Him to be just in another?
A: That very fact should be a ministryj I was glad to
cannot change, so that I can know what reA: I don't hold God responsible for the
to us to do everything we could to get read· let the correspond1
forms to work for my:ielf?
work of bad men. So long as He allows
for that life.
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A: . That is too long a list to catalogue . free will he can't compel men to be good.
ith the latter in
tonight. . What I said was, "Go-d cannot
Q: Do you vote the Socialist ticket?
1as limiting my
A PARABLE.
make a wrong right."
A: I do the Christian Socialist ticket-I
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vote as I pray.
Q: What do you consider the fundamenSaid Christ our Lord, "I will ·go and se tween employers a
tal reason for willing laborers' inability t-0
How the men, my brethren, believe in me. profits and losse:
Q: Are the trusts beneficial to the laborget employment?
He passed not again through the gate
ing communities?
takes in the whole
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The man himself, conditions, the
~ion. ~lost disag1
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In some communities they are, in
But birth,
community, the employers""""'."all may be re- some not.
made Himself known to the childr fact that the disp1
of earth.
sponsible. I should need a specific case to
the same thing.
Q (Mr. Sullivan): Aren't Christianity
say certainly.
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and Socialism two great ideals to be realThen
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said the chief priests and rulers an,
Q:
(Mrs. Hoffman): What does the
You will agree 1
ized ·b y education and the ballot box?
kings,
Dot ·before, that I
Christian church mean where the apostles
A: I think they are one ideal, but that
"Behold, now, the Giver of all good things Who :talked to us C
and their followers divided what they had,
is the way to realize it.
Go to, let us welcome with pomp and sta fortnight ago, is a
and each man had enough?
Q: What standard have we for determinHim who alone is mighty and ·great."
minister. How
A: We are a long ways off yet froJ7J. the
ing truth and justice in the eyes of all?
rasaical and ti
Lord's teaching and the practice of some
A: We can't harmonize the views of all
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With carpets of gold the grouncl
" are in our cl
of His disciples. If all the money of the
in this world anywhere.
spread
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world were - istributed Saturday night
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Q: You say the last shall be first and the
Wherever the Son of Man should tread;
test night we
there would be rich and poor by Monday first last. Isn't that only a threat of reAnd in palace-chambers lofty and rare
was as pro1
morning.
venge? Would it not be better to say last
They lodged him, and served him
r him. He Sl
and first shall be equal?
Q: Why should we be judged for condikingly fare.
i !rankest an:
A: I don't see that I did not do that . .
tions over which we ha,e no control?
he very funda
Q (Mr. Ballou): Since God is so patient
A: The judgment in that case would be
Great organs surged thr-0ngh arches dim_;
e bottom of l
with us, why should we criticize Him, as in
in your favor. I don't think a man ~ l
Their jubilant floods in praise of him; t
For the last
the hymn, "God Save the People"?
ever ·b e held responsible for what he ~ d
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And in church, and palace, and · judgme: '
tly working q
A: We hardly know eriough to criticize
not help.
hall,·
em up ands
each other, and much less God. We should
Q: Would it not be · etter, since there is
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He saw his image high over all.
Uight or ,
blame on men what we often blame on ·God.
so much uncertainty a·b out the next world,
d he had
Q: Do you think the struggle for exist.
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to learn more about Socialism and underBut still, wherever his steps they led,
ence will ever be eliminated?
stand that it -doesn't mean the division of
' ou recall thi
The Lord in sorrow bent down his head;
A: I said somewhere, somehow and at
this world's profits?
.e r is very cj
And from under the heavy foundatisome time. I am not a pessimist. I think
A: I am a Christian Socialist, but - ased
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stones,
the world is getting better every day.
Uii'on the principles of the · Gospel as I un• him, an
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The Son of :Mary heard bitter groans.
Q: Do · you think Jesus had in mind
derstand it.
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when He gave that parable the possibility
Here Is
Q: W- at do you think of Darwin's theory
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And in church, and palace, and judgm
of a death-bed repentance?
the midst of
as opposed to the Bible story of creation?
hall,
A: I certainly can't tell what was in the
-ce.k,- Gaz,
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Darwin himself is held responsible
He marked great fissures that rent
mind of Jesus.
Talk Demo
for much that belongs to his disciples. Evowall,
Q: Do you believe that Christianity . And
deadly elf,
lution itself is still a matter for discussion.
opened wider and yet more wide
should heal diseases, as Christ did?
As
___ the jawbo
the living foundation heaved
Q: Why is the Bible so difficult that even
A: I think it does. I know if people
8WOaoUNnds. But th-e
sighed.
the ministers misunderstand and misinterwould be thoroughly Christian they· would
tactics. He
pret it?
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Q: Wh-y should we be judged for condiA: I don't see that I did not do that.
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Q (Mr. Ballou): :Since God is so patient
A: The judgment in that case woJ.l6 be
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each other, and much less God. We should
Q: Would it not be better, since there is
blame on men what we often blame on God.
so much uncertainty about the next world,
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stand that it ,d oesn't mean the division of
A: I said somewhere, somehow and at
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some time. I am not a pessimist. I think
A: I am a Christian Sor.ialist, but ,based the world is getting ·b etter every ,d ay.
upon the principles of the Gospel as I unQ:
Do you think Jesus had in mind
<lerstand it.
when He gave that parable the possibility
Q: W,h at do you think of Darwin's theory
of a death-bed repentance?
as opposed to the Bible story of creation?
A: I certainly can't tell what was in the
A.:
Darwin himself is held responsible mind of Jesus. ·
for much that belongs to his disciples. EvoQ:
Do you believe that Christianity .
lution itself is still a matter for discussion. should heal diseases, as Christ· did?
A:
I think it does. I know if people
Q: Why is the Bible so difficult that even
the ministers misunderstand and misinter- would be thoroughly Christian they· would
get rid of a great many diseases that you
pret it?
A: If _'you are not looking for difficulties and I know of. (Applause.)
Q:
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you will . find it one oNhe plainest ·b ooks
taught us predestination, or have we evolved
written.
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Q: Doesn't the difficulty of matrimony
A: I am certain that they were ·wrong.
put women in the industrial world and keep
Q ( Miss deFord) :
Since we are to be
men from getting work?
compensated for all our wrongs in another
A: Not in my family! (Laughter.)
world, why strive for any reform in this?
Q (Mr. Sackmary): Would not that -day
toward which we are all working come Why not consider the worst treated man the
much sooner if the churches would throw most fortunate?
A.: I think Heaven is to begin here. I
aside their ritualism and dogma and pracdo not preach so much to get people ready
tise the Gospel as we do in Ford Hall?
for Heaven yonder as for Heaven here.
A: If that is your creed, if you will come
into the church you will help bring that
Q: Why is the church as a church so
about. (Applause.)
opposed to the principles of Socialism, when
Q: How old is the world, according to
they have so much in common with the doc•
the Bible?
trines of Christ?
A: The question of the chronology of
A: That presumption does not apply to
the Bi"ble is not yet settled in the minds of all the church or to all churches.
.theologians.
Q: Mr. Foster said last week , e did not
h
Q: What brand of Christianity do you
believe in predestination. You say you do.
wan\ to annex to Socialism?
How about that?
A: A good one to begin with is the
A: I do? You ought to sit nearer.
Golden Rule.
(Laughter.)
Q (Mr. Jordan): How do you expect harQ: When we pass away, if we don't
mony in this world today when we crucify
leave our spirit behind us, where does it go?
the working man for profit?
A: Where does a light go when it goes
A : Tomorrow will have to have a share
out? There are some things that are hard
and tomorrow after tomorrow.
to answer, and that is one of them. I myQ (Mr. Bodfish): May not wrong be
self think the next world will be very much
wrong simply because of our restricted vi- like this.
Q (Mr. Frazier): Do you believe in
sion, an<l in . the great scheme of creation
woman suffrage? (Applause.)
may it not ·b e right?
A.:
I don't mean to say that things so
A: If you had been in Boston 30 to 35
years ago, and had known of the original
absolutely wrong as for us to .be sure of
them do not have to be corrected.
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Do vou recall that I said Dr. Fostei
And from under the heavy foundatio1
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stones,
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The Son of Mary heard bitter groans.
et from him, and he is wise enough
ow that there is more than one way
And in church, and palace,
reach. Here is .a pithy paragraph ri
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And opened wider and yet more wide
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And think ye that building shall endure $ilence. Many that are fluent to critic.
Which sllelters the noble and crushes }lre dumb to praise. That is the devili
poor?
ick, and the Dumb Devil should be driv
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"With gates of silver and bars of gold
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Still, as thou leftest them, thy sheep." fers to their church relationship. Throug:
ihe influence of our meetings Mr. Sulliva:
Then Christ sought out an artisan,
has been led to look more kindly on th
A low-browed, stunted, haggard man,
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For fear of defilement, "Lo, here," said lther way, but simply provide a platforn:
r the expression of truth as viewed from
"The images ye ·h ave made of Me!"
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,und me with Julia Ward Howe an'dlr========================================;-i
~ivermore plead!ng for school suf,
,nd I want a lot more suffrage before
:irough.
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Should we not try to make peopl&
.n this world, j11st because the last
By GEORGE W. COLEMAN, Director of the Ford Hall Meetings
e first and the first l&st in the nex
AS IT LOOKS TO ME
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said the chief priests and rulers -an
You will agree with me now, if you did
kings,
Dot before, that my friend Allyn _Foster,
Id, now, the Giver of all good things who talked to us on religion and science a
, let us welcome with pomp and sta fortnight ago, is a "hummer" even if he is
.v-ho alone is mighty and great."
a minister. How easy it is to become
,J )harasaical and think that all the "live
carI)€ts or gold the ground
ones"" are in our class-the laity! In many
ways I think Dr. Foster gave us the
spread
ever the Son of Man should tread; createst night we ever had at Ford Hall,
Ln palace-chambers lofty and rare
and I was as proud of the audience as I
lodged him, and served him wi was or him. He succeeded in setting forth
ID the !rankest and most convincing mankingly fare.
11. r the very fundamentals that have been
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: organs surged through arches dim. at the bottom of all our success at Ford
BalL For the last six years we have ·b een
· jubilant floods in praise of him;
in church, and palace, and judgme »atiently working out these ideas; he gath.f t'ed them up and set them before us under
hall,
the spot-light of his illuminating personalaw his image high over all.
• And he had never seen us before.
still, wherever his steps they led,
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you recall that I said Dr. Foster of
Lord in sorrow bent down his head,
Is very clever with his pen? The
from under the heavy foundatirs are glad to print all they can
stones,
him. and he is wise enough to
Son of Mary heard bitter groans .
t there is more than one way to
Here is a pithy paragraph right
in church, and palace,
e midst of one of his editorials in
hall,
fer Gazctte :
marked great fissures that rent
'It Demon lays about him as of
wall,
deadly etrecr. As in the davs of
opened wider and yet more wide
the jawbone cf the ass slays its
the living foundation heaved
_L _ But the Dumb Devil adopts difsighed.
cs.. He paralyses the tongue so
not utter what it should. For
,ve ye founded your thrones, and al
:on that has heen slain by slander
then,
¬her that has been shrivelled bv
the bodies and souls of living men?
Yan., that are flu ent to criticise
i think ye that building shall endure
b to Praise. That is the devilish
ich shelters the noble and crushes 1
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A
BISHOP
WHO WORKS
SINGLE TAX.
FOR
THE
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Those critics of the church and churchmen who think that professing Christians
care little or nothing for social reform must _
experience decided chagrin when they first
encounter Bishop Charles Williams of
:\iichigan.
For devoted as Williams is
to -the work of the church body, whose high
official he has been called to be, he is scarcec
Jy less devoted to spreading the doctrines
of Henry George. At r.ny time he will •
cheerfully surrender the quiet of a ~ell~
earned evening at home for a gathering be-fore which he can present these doctines in
a ·helpful and persuasive manner.
No
speaker who ·c omes to us makes more
friends for the church-by virtue of his
simple manliness-than Bishop Williams;
no •Single Taxer is able to present more effectively this appealing economic doctrine.
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Fools are the •rungs in the ladder upon
which the wise. man climbs upward.
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I was glad to give way last week and
That very fact should be a ministry
o do everything we could to get read let the correspondent from Panama and Mr.
tyictorson have my space. I quite agree
Lt life.
;with the latter in his main contention. I
"'\\·as limiting my comment chiefly to the
A PARABLE.
~ubject of a more complete confidence be~hrist our Lord, "I will - o and see tween employers and their employees as to
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he men, my brethren, believe in me.' profits and losses, while )I.Ir. Victorson
.ssed not again through the gate
takes in the whole field of economic discusbirth,
sion. :\lost disagreements -come from the
1ade Himself known to the childr fact that the disputants are not discussing
of earth.
the same thing.
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come the complaint that we are religious.
Let us be content with the fact that we are
helping men and women to be more human
'and better neighbors to each other.
Rev. Nicholas Van der Pyl of Haverhill,
Mr. Stewart Anderson of Springfield, Dr.
Allyn K. Foster of Worcester and Mr. Miner
Chipman of Boston, :-i.11 warm friends of
ours, ,have been engaged to speak at the
Open Forum in Manch•
:ster, N. H. On all
their programs there they continue to give
most generous -credit to Ford Hall as the
source of their inspiration. Their printed
program in fact looks so much like ours
you would hardly notice the difference.
They
Mass.,
there.
former
are after me to go to Gloucester,
and help them establish a forum
Rev. Levi M. Powers, one of our
speakers, is active in the ·matter.
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Unselfishness: An intense desire to permit
others to do what you wish them,to do.
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The forum for young men Sunday afternoons at the Y. M. C. A. Building is gaining
fast. Sunday a week ago there were 185
present. The room was overflowed. If it
keeps on growing they wi!I sqon · .have-to
move into their big hall, whic h will seat
500.
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Put down now in _
your calendar the date
for -the next gatherin·g of the Ford Hall
Folks, January 25th. We often have sixty
to seventy in attendance now, but expect
to see it at one hundred.
Miss Cr awford has not recovered from
the heavy bronchial cold as quickly as was
hoped. While she has been confined to the
house for more than a week ( at the time
of this writing) she has had the devotion
and grit to attend to :mr work through -the
use of the mails and the telephone. In all
her five years of connection with the work
I do not think she has befor e missed t wo
Sundays at Ford Hall.
Do the work you are fitted to do. If you
are a pumpkin-vine do not try to become a
morning-glory.
,Ve get what our natures demand: the pig
Other Meetings
School of Social Science, Lorimer. Hall,
Monday, Jan. 12, 7.30 P. M., "Bernard Shaw
as a Social S!iIIlptom," by Dr. Stanton Coit,
10 cents.
Wells Memorial Institute, 987 Washington street, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 8 P. M., "The .
Rights of the Public in Labor Disputes," by
James A. McKibben.
Sunday Commons, Huntington Chambers
Hall, Sunday, Jan. 18, 3.30 P. M., Dr. Chas.
Fleischer, leader.
Public Library, Monday, Jan. 12. 8 P. M.,
"The Canadian Rockies, the Pa-cific Coast
and the Santa Fe Country," by Guy Richardson. Thursday, Jan. 15, 8 P. M., "How
the Masters Drew," by Wilbur Dean Hamilton. Sunday, Jan. 18, •3.30 P. M., "How to
Enjoy Pictures in Art and Nature," by
Henry Warren Poor.
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Lowell Institute. Huntington Hall, Monday, Jan. 12, 5 P. M., " America and France in
Contact in the Past," by Fernand Baldensperger. Monday, Jan. 12, and Thursday, Jan.
15, 8 P. cVI., ;,The Man Behind the Vote,"
by Graham Wallas.
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for
Good Government.
Statesmen's ~ ting.
Tremont Temple. Saturd av. __J_::i nn ~!:.Y....21._ ~ t
T
e saw his 1ma·ge mgn over au.
lt still, wherever his steps they led,
1e Lord in sorrow bent down his head,
11d from under the heavy foundati,
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stones,
b.e Son of ~ary heard bitter groans.
I in church, and palace,
nd
(
hall,
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:e marked great fissures that rent
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wall, '
nd opened wider and yet more wide
s the living foundation heaved
sighed.
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rut aown now m your calendar the date
for the next gatherin-g of the Ford Hall
Felks, January 25th. We often have sixty
to seventy in attendance now, but expect
to see it at one hundred.
"j;.i::i" ght of his Uluminating personal1
tJ'. A.Dd be bad never seen us before.
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is very clever with his pen? The
e.-spapers are glad to print all they can
trom him, and he is wise enough to
ow that there is more than one way to
each. Here is a pithy paragraph right
at of the midst of one of his editorials in
orce.ter
e won:ester Gazett e:
"The Talk Demon lays about him as of
,Jd with deadly effect. As in the days of
on the jawbone of the ass slays its
ousands. But the Dumb Devil adopts dif-
:erent tactics. He paralyses the tongue so
Jt cannot utter what it should. For
Have ye founded your
,very person that has been slain by slander
t
then,
e.r e is another that has been shrivelled by
•n the bodies and souls of living men?
lence. Many that are fluent to criticise
..nd think ye that buildinq shall endure
dumb to praise. That is the devilish
Vhich shelters the noble and crushes
ick, and the Dumb Devil should be driven
poor?
•
,u( o! doors forthwith . The tired wife and
other who knows no eig,h t-hour law,
With gates of silver and bars of gold
rudges for a lifetime without a word of
'.'.e have fenced my sheep from
ppreciation. A little praise from husband
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Father's fold;
\ have heard the dropping of their tea r children would sweeten the deadly toil
a
n heaven these eighteen hundred yea _ nd bring forth the roses of youth. The
man who could · e eloquent to get his wife
b
!o Lord and \.~st~r. not ours the guilt, loses his vocabulary after he attains. It is
llie Dumb Devil that has done the work and
We build but
our fathers - uilt;
b
ught to be forcibly ejected. The Devil
3ehold thine images, how they stand,
:t makes a man silent, then selfish, then
~overeign and sole, through all our
We get what our natures demand: the pig
has its sty, the bee has its hive, while the
eagle has its nest on the crag.
Ford Hall ·Folks
Edited by Thomas Dreier.
UBLISHED weekly by the Ford
Hall Associates, whose work
is to create, assemble, and
'listribute ideas that will help
men and institutions grow more
helpful in serving society, and which
will promote "peace on earth, good
will toward men." It is the official
nublication of the ·F ord Hall Meetings, which are held, under the direction of . George W. Coleman, every
Sunday evening during the months of
October to. May, in Ford Hall, Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts.
All budness communications should
be sent to Miss Mary C. Crawford,
Treasurer Ford Building, Boston,
and all communi~ations intended for
th e editor to The Thomas Dreier Service, University Pres-s, Cambrid-ge,
Mass. Subscription Price: $1.50 for
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Please notice that statement in the story
r :llr. and Mrs. Sullivan last week that reers to their church relationship. Through
e influence of our meetings Mr. Sullivan
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Then Christ sought out an artisan,
been led to look more kindly on the
A low-browed, stunted, ha-ggard man,
: reat church to which he once belonged.
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And a motherless girl, whose fingers
nd yet some people who know nothing at
Pushed from her faintly want and sin.
1 about us seem to think that our work
in antagonism to all churches. The fact
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These set He in the midst of them,
f the matter is that we do not proselyte
And as they drew back their garment·.
ther way, but simply provide a platform
For fear of defilem._ent, "Lo, here," said
r the expression of truth as viewed from
," The images ye have made of Me!"
1 sides. Sadly enough, this is so unusual
i
-James Russell Low
proceeding that many people cannot unI Waste no pity on him who has lost erstand it. Doubtless down to the last we
·1 all suffer the criticism on our side that
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ideal. Save it for him who has lost his e are not religious and on the other will
c5ire for an ideal.
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are a pumpkin-vine do not try to become a
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'Our task is hard,-with sword
ro hold thy earth forever the same,
A.nd with sharp crooks of steel to k
Still, as thou leftest them, thy sheep."
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Miss Crawford has not recovered from
the heavy bronchial cold as quickly as was
hoped. While she has been confine.a to the
house for more than a week ( at the time
of this writing) she has had the devotion
and grit to attend to our work through the
use of the mails and the telepbone. In all
her five years of connection with the work
I do not think she has before missed two
Sundays at Ford Hall.
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Rights of the Public in Labor Disputes," by
James A. McKibben.
Sunday · Commons, Huntington Chambers
Hall, Sundar, Jan. 18, 3.30 P. M., Dr. Chas.
Fleischer, leader.
Public Library, Monday, Jan. 12, S P . M.,
"The Canadian Rockies, the Pacific Coast
and the Santa Fe Country," by Guy Richardson. Thursday, Jan. 15, 8 P. M., "How
the Masters Drew," by vViibur Dean Hamilton. Sunday, . Jan. 18, . 3.30 P . M., "How to
Enjoy Pictures in Art and Nature," by
Henry Warren Poor.
Lowell Institute, Huntington Hall, Monday, Jan. 12, 5 P . M., "America and France in
Contact in the Past," by Fernand Baldensperger. Monday, Jan. 12, and Thursday, Jan.
15, ·8 P. M., " The Man Behind the Vote,"
by Graham Wallas.
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for
Good Go vernment. Statesmen's Meeting.
Tremont Temple, Saturday, January 24, at
S P . M. Speakers: Senator Clapp of Minnesota, Senator Kenyon of Iowa,- Senator
Thomas of Colorado, Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont. Reserved seats 25 cents to $1. Tickets on salf' at 585 Boylston street.
Temple Adath Israel, Thursday, January
15, at 8 o'clock. Public conference on Immigration. Speakers : Miss Grace Abbott,
Executive Secretary, Massachusetts Immigration Commission; Dr. George W. Tupper,
State Secretary Y. M. C. A.; · Chairman,
Philip Davis.
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I have long contended that nearly everyMonday morning a few of them dribbled
body who attends the Folks Meetings - as a · back. There were enough who would come
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story; the degree of interest that story may to run three mills. All the others in the
attain depends on the ability of the inter- long row of mills were silent. Tuesday
viewer to dig it out and reproduce it in morning Number Four started up, Wednes•
words. Sometimes the story is amazingly day Number Five. By Thursday noon they
"good stuff" and easy to get withal. Such were all going.
is the story of John D. W. Bodfish, who
The same thing happened the week after,
spoke to us last Sunday on "Massachusetts' and the week after and the week after that.
The management tried everything they
Work for the Blind." Though severely
handicapped - imself, chis man is leading could think . of with their people-scolding,
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his class of seeing brothers in the Boston discharging, making their work • harder,
University Law School. Though without making t heir work easier, paying them less,
money or the backing of an y organization paying them more, two Baptist ministers
he recently polled an unexpectedly large and even a little Roman Catholic church.
As long as the negroes saw enough to eat
vote as Senatorial candidate for the Pro.not work. ·
gressives of the Cape District. And in an for three days, they would _
It began to look as if the mills would
age when it seems pretty difficult to some
of us to make a -comfortable living for one have to move back to Massachusetts, where
he has become so successful as a farmer and people looked anxious and where people felt
breeder of poultry that he is able to sup- poor, got up at 5 A. M. Mondays, and
port himself, - is wife and his young ba·by worked.
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·Suddenly one day the son of one of the
as well as pay all his Law School expenses.
owners, a very new-looking young man who
Some man, John Bodfish!
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Bodfish's cheerfulness is the quality that had never - een a business college a?rd who
always impresses me most, however.
The had run through Harvard almost wit'llo ut
book, and who really did not
first time he sought me out in my office looking at a •
high up in the Ford Building it seemed to seem to know or to care anything about anyme that here at last I had come upon arr thing-except folks-appeared on the scene
absolutely happy man.
He then had his with orders from his father that ·h e be set
wife with him, but this year, when she is to work.
The manager could not imagine what to
staying at home in West Barnstable looking
after little Miss ·B odfish, he is usually ac- do with him at first, but finally, being a boy
companied by a fellow student-also handi- who made people like him more than they
capped; this constant companion of Bod- ought to, he found himself placed in charge
fish's has lost an arm. He, too, is cheery. of the company store. The company ownec
Evidently it is not what a man has not but the village, and the company store, which
what he has that determines his -calibre, had been treated as a mere necessity in the
whether the thing he lacks ·be the sight of lonely village, had been located, or rather
his eyes or the service of his strong right dumped, at the time, into a building with
rows of little house-windows in it, a kind of
arm.
Bodfish started out in life as a teach:er, and extra storehouse on the premises.
The great problem of modern charity, the
it was while travelling back and forth in
the train from his home to the H yannis Nor- one with which society is largely occupied
mal School and trying to utilize for study today, is, "What is there that we can posthe hours thus at his disposal that he over- sibly do for our millionaires?"
strained his eyes and so became blind. As . The next thing society is going to do, persoon -as he realized his predicament he set haps, is to design a nd set up purple hats
himself with characteristic energy to make with blue feathers for millionaires.
The moment our millionaires have placed
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Of course there are better things to li'
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silver-headect canes and patent !eat
shoes; but if 9eople can be got to live six d
ahead, or thirty days or sixty days a·head,
stead of three days ahead, - y purple
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and blue feathers and white waistcoats,
if it is necessary to use purple hats
blue feathers to start people thinking .
months instead of minutes, or to bu
them over to where they can have a to
of idealism or of religion or of living
yond t he moment, I say for one, with all
heart, "God bless purple hats and h
feathers!"
The industrial question is not an
nomic question. It is a question of sup
ing a nation with ideals. It is a prob
which o- ly an American National Ideal S
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ply Company could hope to handle.
very first m0i::t'3nt three or four purple
with blue feathers for millionaires and :
laborers have been found and set up in
great show window of the world, t he
dustrial unrest of this century begins
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staying at home in West Barnstable looking
after little Miss Bodfish, he is usually accompanied by a follow smdent-also handicapped; this col!!!tant companion of Bodfish's has lost an arm. He, too, is cheery.
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what he has that determines his calibre,
whether the thing he lacks ·b e the sight of
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Bodfish started out in life as a teacher, and
it was while travelling back and forth in
the train from his home to the Hyannis Normal School and trying to utilize for study
the hours thus at his disposal that he overstrained his eyes -and so became blind. As
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the best of a bad matter. From one of the
itinerant teachers sent out ·b y the Perkins
Institution he learned all that he could at
home, and then ·h e entered the school in
South Boston, and worked on with such success that he was soon sent by Superintendent Allen to organize the work for the blind
in Delaware. From that task he came
straight to Boston Univ1rsity and entered
the Law School. When asked his purpose
in taking up the study of law, Mr. Bodfish
said : "I ·h ave long been interested in public affairs and I realized my need of legal
training if I was to take part in P·Ublic affairs. Ever since entering Normal 'School I
have been interest~ in economics and industrial development. It seems to me that
industrial development is to be the most
important thing in the future, and to understand this I- must have a knowledge of
the law. You ask me as to whether or not
I intend to practice? This I cannot say at
present. I believe that there is a good field
for me in Barnstable and the surrounding
country and I may practice here, but my
real reason for comiug to law school is to
enter 'public life."
Of course such a man is keen over the
opportunities for development offered ·by
the Ford Hall Meetings. His questions are
among the most penetrating ever asked
here.
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to work.
The manager could not imagine what to
do with him at first, but finally, being a boy
who made people like him more than they
ought to, he found himself placed in charge
of the company store. The company owned
the village, · and the company store, which
bad been treated as a mere necessity in the
lonely village, had been located, or rather
dumped, at the time, into a building with
rows of little house-windows in it, a kind or
extra storehouse on the premises.
The great problem of modern charity, the
one with which society is largely occupied
today, is, "What is there that we can possibly do for our millionaires?"
. The next thing society is going to do, perhaps, is to design and set up purple hats
with ·b lue feathers for millionaires.
The moment our millionaires have placed
before them something to live for, a few
real, live, satisfying ideals, or splendid lasting things they can <lo, things that everybody else would want to do and that everybody else woul'd envy them for doing, it will
bore them to run a great business merely to
make money_ They will find it more interesting, harder, and calling for greater
genius, to be great and capable employers.
And when our millionaires once begin to
enter into -competition with one another in
being the greatest and most successful employers of labor on earth our industrial
troubles will' cease.
Millionaires who get as much work out
of their employees as they dare and pay
them as little as they can, ,a nd who give the
public as small values as they dare and take
as much money as they can, do such stupid,
humdrum, '!Onvemional things only because
they are bored, because they cannot really
think of anything to live for.
Laborers whose daily, hourly occupation
consists in seeing how much less work a
day than they ought to do they can do, and
how much m<Jre money they can get out of
their employers than they earn, do such
things only because they are tired or bored
and discouraged, and because they cannot
think of anything that is truly big and fine
and worth working for.
The first thing the young man did was to
stave four holes in the building, all along
the front and around the corners on the two
sides, and put in four big plate-glass windows. The store was mysteriously closed
up in front for a -few days to do this, and
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heart, "God bless purple hats and b
feathers!"
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ing a nati'on with ideals. It is a Prob
which only an American National Ideals
ply Company could hope to handle.
very first mor:1~nt three or four vurvle fr
with blue feathers for millionaires and
laborers have been found and set up in
great show window of the world, the
dustrial unrest of this century begins
end.
When one employee is getting mone,
does not earn another employee is ear·
money he does not get.
Friends Who Are Coming
Jan. 11-Symposium, "What Is the M
With Our Public Schools?" Miss Mar
Slattery of Fitchburg and others to be
nounced .
Jan. 18-Bishop Charles Williams of
igan, "Why I Work for the Sin,g le Tax,"
Jan. 25-Dr. Albion Woodbury S
Chicago University.
Feb. 1-Alexander Irvine of New Yor:
Feb. S-Prof. Edward A. Steiner, '
Inter-National Mind and the InterHeart."
Feb. 15-Symposimn, "Breeding
Speakers to be announced.
Feb. 22-Charles Brandon Booth,
Case for the Prisoner."
March 1-Leslie Willis Spra.g ue of
cago.
March 8-Symposium, on "Journal'
A. J. Philpott of the Boston Globe and o
to be announced.
March 15-Rev. Harry Ward, "The
lenge of Socialism to Christianity."
March 22-Rev. . Frank 0. Hall
York, "The Moral Law."
March 29-John Cowper Powys
land, "The Economic Aspects of
Suffrage."
April 5-Mary Church Terrell, '
Sam and the Sons of Ham."
April 12-Dr. Thomas C. Hall of
York.
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Pearl Street, Boston, Mass.
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RECEIVE a number . of periodicals
discussin"' the live questions - the
of
day fro~ many different viewpoints.
I have left a paper on my library
ble tonio-ht which calls attention to an
dress delivered to laboring men in one of
e great cities of this - ountry on the " homc
idal maniac," entitled " Jesus, the Work·
mg :Vian of Nazareth, on the Rights of
bor." I purpose, not to discuss its character at all tonight, but to address myself
to the text upon which this travesty is
based; and while I am always willing to
ccord to men differing from me sincerity,
-when intelligently and earnestly they express their views, I must think that misappr~hension, leading to misinterpretation,
bas -Often been the foundation of what to
my mind seems erroneous.
The text is the parable of the laborer, in
e 20th chapter of Matthew. The challenge
Ja to show that it is fair, equitable, just, to
y for one hour's labor as much as is paid
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r a whole day's labor. The mjsapprehen.on, to my mind, is in supposing that this
·bing makes it true that it is right to
one laborer for one hour's work, ened. In the same kind of work, other
lP being equal, as much as is paid the
er laborers for the whole day-in othe_
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ls, lt !air to pay no more to the latter
to the former?
OU. will note that the last verse of the
1oua _
chapter corresponds exactly with
laat Terse or this parable-"But many
. ~ first shall _be last, and the last shall
- - for the Kingdom of Heaven .... Let
traDater ourselves back to the time and
lillla of the people to whom this parable
, 8Doken. The day differed-it be"'an at
~ .k. ~ow this householder is to rep• ba ~ndard of universal righteous•1
called "the good man." " He
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that righteousness exists in the consensus
of human intelligence. Second, things in
this world are not right. Lastly, somewhere, somehow and at some time they
they must be made right. (Applause.)
They must be made right if only to vindicate a righteous Governor - the universe.
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There is no difference of opinion as to
this fundamental judgment that is in each
man concerning questions of right and
wrong. Righteousness must be, then, with
the God of the universe as well as with
human intelligence, and it must be under·
stood that this householder, who is to represent the Governor of the universe, must
have an agreement with the righteousness
which addresses itself to your mind and
mine.
Here is where Calvinism broke
down, -on the doctrines of decree-predestination, foreordination. Even God cannot
make things right that are wrong. (Applause.) God does not make a thing true, but He speaks it ·because it is true, as true
as Himself.
Things in this world are not right-not
right in your circle or in mine. The ·p oor
are crushed by their environment, the rich
yield to temptation. The law •isn't right;
it has to go through an evolution which
will make it righteous. Often the good meet
with misfortune and the wicked with good
fortune. Do you propose to tell me that
this -is fair? I can find conditions in the
Christian church that a.re not right, although I am not a critic or a cynic. I have
always ·been a ~nd of the man who is
called a laboring man, though I hope we
are all la- orers-I mean the . laborer who
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has less chance and less· opportunity and
less c ompensation.
Somewhere, somehow a nd at some time
the wrongs of this world must be made
right. If this -were the only world I were
ever to know I could not certainly rever-
verse of the previous chapter is to find its
realization in the case of these last laborers
who are called first. It is not right to pay
people the same for one hour's work as for
a whole day's. There is much of that injustice in the world today, as witness wom•
en, who do not receive equal pay for equal
work with men. But-··Why stand ye here
idle in the market-place? Because no -man
hath hired us." That is, the people of the
eleventh hour represent the great class in
this world which has been treated unfairly.
The householder says: " I pay for hunting
for work as well as for the work that is
done." The most contented man in the
world is the one who knows that he has
steady, permanent, well paid work. There
is nothing harder than hunting for work
and not finding it. The parable of Dives
and Lazarus is in a way an approach to
what ought to be. Those who are unhappy
now must be happy later. The contemptuous attitude of those who are high now,
evinced for instance in race prejudice, must
be rectifie-d in the next world.
(The speaker then told of a man who had
lost his wife and children in a railroad
wreck and hunted in vain for work until a
man employed - im and •paid him $10 for
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one day's work.) You may call this compensation wage or charity, as you please,
but do you think the other laborers had any
right to complain?
I should be very sorry to feel that the
whole of compensation comes to any man in
this life. I say unto you: "Wait a little,
and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive." ·
ABOUT PURPLE HATS AND BLUE.
By Gerald Stanley Lee.
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evinced for instance in race prejudice, must
be rectified in the next world.
( The speaker then told of a man who had
lost his wife and children in a railroad
wreck and hunted in vain for work until a
man employed - im and paid him $10 for
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one day's work.) You may call this compensation wage or charity, as you please,
but do you think the other laborers had any
right to complain?
I should be very sorry to feel that the
whole of compensation comes to any man iri
this life. I say unto you: "Wait a little,
and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive." ·
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gs • eing equal, as much as is :paid the
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,rdS, is it fair to pay no more to tJ:utter
ID · to the former?
You will note that the last verse of ~he
,reTious chapter corresponds e~fctly with
e last verse of this parable-- But many
t are first shall be last, and the last shall
f1,rst, for the Kingdom of Heaven." Let
tran5fer ourselves back to the time and
ms of the people to whom. this parable
spoken. The day differed-it began at
o'clock. Now this householder is to repent a standard of universal righteouss· he is called "the good man." "He
th out in the morning to the marketce"-a sort of labor exchange. He evientli hired all he could find who came at
at - our. He still had . other work to ,be
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.one. and he went out at 9 o'clock and
nnd others and sent them to the vineyard,
d so again at noon, 3 and even 5 o'clock.
e only parties with whom he entered ina contract were those in the morning,
·ho were to work the entire day, and he
·eed with them for a penny. We must
dge of this penny by its value in the time
-w,h ich the parable was S!}Oken. -- It was
~Roman !}enny, worth about 15c, and perps a usual wage, as it is in Mexico today.
ese men were perfectly satisfied. If there
d been no other laborers there would
.ve ·been no complaint. With each of the
ers we have no agreement-only that
t they were to receive what was right.
d now, when the last came, he called
em and gave to them for the one hour's
rvice as much as he gave to those that
, contracted for the entire day.
Wherefore, there must be some reason
hy these last should have · een first. Here
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the key to the whole parable--"Whatsoer is right, that shall ye receive." There
th~ee suggestions underlying this. First,
ere 1s but one righteousness, in Heaven
on earth, throughout the universe and
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but He speaks it because it is true, as true
as Himself.
Things in this world are not right-not
right in your circle or in mine. The poor
are -crushed by their environment, the rich
yield to temptation. The law isn't right;
it has to go through an evolution which
will make it righteous. Often the good meet
with misfortune and the wicked with good
fortune. Do you propose to tell me that
this is fair? I can find conditions in the
Christian church that a.re not right, although I am not a critic or a cynic. I have
always ·b een a friend of the man who is
called a laboring ma~ough I_ hope we
are all laborers-I mem6 the laborer who
has less chance and less opportunity and
less compensation. .
Somewhere, somehow and at some time
the wrongs of this world must ·be made
right. If this were the only world I were
ever to know I could net certainly reverentially worship God and call him Father,
much less loving. I should absolutely find
an enigma in this life. I find instead in
this life an inevitable argument for another
life.
How shall this fairness be gained? In the
first place the men in the parable should
have kept their contract. But the last
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As we launch out this week on a
new undertaking, realizing its great
promises of blessing and appreciating
all its uncertainties, our hearts cry
out to Thee, 0 Great Executive, for
that guidance anu. protection which
we so much need and which ·has been
so graciously granted to us through
those most trying and <lifficult days
of the earlier part of our work.
May this mid-week gathering of the
people for the study and practice of
democracy be greatly blessed of Thee.
Help us to put our very ·b est into it.
Show us whereby we may make it a
great light in this community, pointin·g the way to genuine neighborliness in all the affairs and relationships of men.
Amen.
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ABOUT PURPLE HATS AND BLUE.
By Gerald Stanley Lee.
H ere is part of an essay which was
originally printed in " The Outlook,"
and which has since appeared in Mr.
Lee's great book, " Crowds." It is a1.
essay which should be read by every
employer of labor and by every man
and woman who desires to help folks
grow more useful.
BIG New England factory, not long
ago, wanted to ·g et nearer its raw ma•
terial, and moved to Georgia.
All the machine considerations,
better water power, cheaper labor, smaller
freight bills, and new markets, had argued
for moving to Georgia.
Long rows of new mills were · uilt and
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thousands of negroes were moved in and
thousands of shanties were put up, and the
men and the women stood between the
wheels. And the wheels turned.
There was not a thing that had not been
thought of except the men and women that ·
stood between the wheels.
The men and - women that stood , etween
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the wheels were, ·for the most part, strong
and hearty persons, and they never looked
anxious or abused, and they did as they
were told.
· .A:fill when Saturday night came, crowds of ·
th~m with their black faces, of the men and
:the~;women, of the boys and girls, might.
have :been seen filing out of the works with .,. ·
their week's wages.
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Should we not try to make people
equal ·i n this world, j11st because the last
By GEORGI
shall be first and the first last in the ne
Q: If God cannot change everything, will
Q: If God is not just in this world, how
world?
you give me a list of the things he can and
can we expect Him to be just in another?
A: That very fact should be a ministryj I was glad to
cannot change, so that I can know what reA: I don't hold God responsible for the
to us to do everything we could to get read· let the correspond1
forms to work for my:ielf?
work of bad men. So long as He allows
for that life.
[Victorson have m:
A: . That is too long a list to catalogue . free will he can't compel men to be good.
ith the latter in
tonight. . What I said was, "Go-d cannot
Q: Do you vote the Socialist ticket?
1as limiting my
A PARABLE.
make a wrong right."
A: I do the Christian Socialist ticket-I
·j ubject of a more
vote as I pray.
Q: What do you consider the fundamenSaid Christ our Lord, "I will ·go and se tween employers a
tal reason for willing laborers' inability t-0
How the men, my brethren, believe in me. profits and losse:
Q: Are the trusts beneficial to the laborget employment?
He passed not again through the gate
ing communities?
takes in the whole
A:
The man himself, conditions, the
~ion. ~lost disag1
A:
In some communities they are, in
But birth,
community, the employers""""'."all may be re- some not.
made Himself known to the childr fact that the disp1
of earth.
sponsible. I should need a specific case to
the same thing.
Q (Mr. Sullivan): Aren't Christianity
say certainly.
·
and Socialism two great ideals to be realThen
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said the chief priests and rulers an,
Q:
(Mrs. Hoffman): What does the
You will agree 1
ized ·b y education and the ballot box?
kings,
Dot ·before, that I
Christian church mean where the apostles
A: I think they are one ideal, but that
"Behold, now, the Giver of all good things Who :talked to us C
and their followers divided what they had,
is the way to realize it.
Go to, let us welcome with pomp and sta fortnight ago, is a
and each man had enough?
Q: What standard have we for determinHim who alone is mighty and ·great."
minister. How
A: We are a long ways off yet froJ7J. the
ing truth and justice in the eyes of all?
rasaical and ti
Lord's teaching and the practice of some
A: We can't harmonize the views of all
.
With carpets of gold the grouncl
" are in our cl
of His disciples. If all the money of the
in this world anywhere.
spread
;
s .I think Di
world were - istributed Saturday night
d
Q: You say the last shall be first and the
Wherever the Son of Man should tread;
test night we
there would be rich and poor by Monday first last. Isn't that only a threat of reAnd in palace-chambers lofty and rare
was as pro1
morning.
venge? Would it not be better to say last
They lodged him, and served him
r him. He Sl
and first shall be equal?
Q: Why should we be judged for condikingly fare.
i !rankest an:
A: I don't see that I did not do that . .
tions over which we ha,e no control?
he very funda
Q (Mr. Ballou): Since God is so patient
A: The judgment in that case would be
Great organs surged thr-0ngh arches dim_;
e bottom of l
with us, why should we criticize Him, as in
in your favor. I don't think a man ~ l
Their jubilant floods in praise of him; t
For the last
the hymn, "God Save the People"?
ever ·b e held responsible for what he ~ d
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And in church, and palace, and · judgme: '
tly working q
A: We hardly know eriough to criticize
not help.
hall,·
em up ands
each other, and much less God. We should
Q: Would it not be · etter, since there is
b
He saw his image high over all.
Uight or ,
blame on men what we often blame on ·God.
so much uncertainty a·b out the next world,
d he had
Q: Do you think the struggle for exist.
.
to learn more about Socialism and underBut still, wherever his steps they led,
ence will ever be eliminated?
stand that it -doesn't mean the division of
' ou recall thi
The Lord in sorrow bent down his head;
A: I said somewhere, somehow and at
this world's profits?
.e r is very cj
And from under the heavy foundatisome time. I am not a pessimist. I think
A: I am a Christian Socialist, but - ased
b
pers are glai
stones,
the world is getting better every day.
Uii'on the principles of the · Gospel as I un• him, an
m
The Son of :Mary heard bitter groans.
Q: Do · you think Jesus had in mind
derstand it.
t there ·
when He gave that parable the possibility
Here Is
Q: W- at do you think of Darwin's theory
h
And in church, and palace, and judgm
of a death-bed repentance?
the midst of
as opposed to the Bible story of creation?
hall,
A: I certainly can't tell what was in the
-ce.k,- Gaz,
A:
Darwin himself is held responsible
He marked great fissures that rent
mind of Jesus.
Talk Demo
for much that belongs to his disciples. Evowall,
Q: Do you believe that Christianity . And
deadly elf,
lution itself is still a matter for discussion.
opened wider and yet more wide
should heal diseases, as Christ did?
As
___ the jawbo
the living foundation heaved
Q: Why is the Bible so difficult that even
A: I think it does. I know if people
8WOaoUNnds. But th-e
sighed.
the ministers misunderstand and misinterwould be thoroughly Christian they· would
tactics. He
pret it?
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Q: Wh-y should we be judged for condiA: I don't see that I did not do that.
tions over which we ha,e no control?
Q (Mr. Ballou): :Since God is so patient
A: The judgment in that case woJ.l6 be
with us, why should we criticize Him, as in
in your favor. I don't think a ma,r--will
People"?
ever be held responsible for what he could the hymn, "God Save theenough to criticize
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not help.
each other, and much less God. We should
Q: Would it not be better, since there is
blame on men what we often blame on God.
so much uncertainty about the next world,
Q:
Do you think the struggle for existto learn more about .Socialism and under- ence will ever be eliminated?
stand that it ,d oesn't mean the division of
A: I said somewhere, somehow and at
this world's profits?
some time. I am not a pessimist. I think
A: I am a Christian Sor.ialist, but ,based the world is getting ·b etter every ,d ay.
upon the principles of the Gospel as I unQ:
Do you think Jesus had in mind
<lerstand it.
when He gave that parable the possibility
Q: W,h at do you think of Darwin's theory
of a death-bed repentance?
as opposed to the Bible story of creation?
A: I certainly can't tell what was in the
A.:
Darwin himself is held responsible mind of Jesus. ·
for much that belongs to his disciples. EvoQ:
Do you believe that Christianity .
lution itself is still a matter for discussion. should heal diseases, as Christ· did?
A:
I think it does. I know if people
Q: Why is the Bible so difficult that even
the ministers misunderstand and misinter- would be thoroughly Christian they· would
get rid of a great many diseases that you
pret it?
A: If _'you are not looking for difficulties and I know of. (Applause.)
Q:
Were the preachers wrong who
you will . find it one oNhe plainest ·b ooks
taught us predestination, or have we evolved
written.
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into a ·b righter light?
,
Q: Doesn't the difficulty of matrimony
A: I am certain that they were ·wrong.
put women in the industrial world and keep
Q ( Miss deFord) :
Since we are to be
men from getting work?
compensated for all our wrongs in another
A: Not in my family! (Laughter.)
world, why strive for any reform in this?
Q (Mr. Sackmary): Would not that -day
toward which we are all working come Why not consider the worst treated man the
much sooner if the churches would throw most fortunate?
A.: I think Heaven is to begin here. I
aside their ritualism and dogma and pracdo not preach so much to get people ready
tise the Gospel as we do in Ford Hall?
for Heaven yonder as for Heaven here.
A: If that is your creed, if you will come
into the church you will help bring that
Q: Why is the church as a church so
about. (Applause.)
opposed to the principles of Socialism, when
Q: How old is the world, according to
they have so much in common with the doc•
the Bible?
trines of Christ?
A: The question of the chronology of
A: That presumption does not apply to
the Bi"ble is not yet settled in the minds of all the church or to all churches.
.theologians.
Q: Mr. Foster said last week , e did not
h
Q: What brand of Christianity do you
believe in predestination. You say you do.
wan\ to annex to Socialism?
How about that?
A: A good one to begin with is the
A: I do? You ought to sit nearer.
Golden Rule.
(Laughter.)
Q (Mr. Jordan): How do you expect harQ: When we pass away, if we don't
mony in this world today when we crucify
leave our spirit behind us, where does it go?
the working man for profit?
A: Where does a light go when it goes
A : Tomorrow will have to have a share
out? There are some things that are hard
and tomorrow after tomorrow.
to answer, and that is one of them. I myQ (Mr. Bodfish): May not wrong be
self think the next world will be very much
wrong simply because of our restricted vi- like this.
Q (Mr. Frazier): Do you believe in
sion, an<l in . the great scheme of creation
woman suffrage? (Applause.)
may it not ·b e right?
A.:
I don't mean to say that things so
A: If you had been in Boston 30 to 35
years ago, and had known of the original
absolutely wrong as for us to .be sure of
them do not have to be corrected.
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The Lord in sorrow bent down his head,
Do vou recall that I said Dr. Fostei
And from under the heavy foundatio1
orcester is very clever with his pen?
stones,
e11'1Jpapers are glad to print all they
The Son of Mary heard bitter groans.
et from him, and he is wise enough
ow that there is more than one way
And in church, and palace,
reach. Here is .a pithy paragraph ri
hall,
ut o! the midst of one of his· editorial,
He marked great fissures that rent
e Worcester Gazette:
wall,
MThe Talk Demon lays about him as
And opened wider and yet more wide
old with deadly effect. As in the days
As the living foundation heaved
amson the jawbone of the ass slays
sighed.
ousands. But the Dumb Devil adopts
erent tactics. He paralyses the tongue
"Have ye founded your thrones, and al
at it cannot utter what it should. I
then,
very person that has been slain by slanc
On the bodies and souls of living men? ·t here is another that has been shrivelled
And think ye that building shall endure $ilence. Many that are fluent to critic.
Which sllelters the noble and crushes }lre dumb to praise. That is the devili
poor?
ick, and the Dumb Devil should be driv
ouf of doors forthwith. The tired wife a:
"With gates of silver and bars of gold
~other who knows no eig.ht-hour la
Ye have fenced my sheep from th, p rudge_ ~or a lif time without a word
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appreciation. A little praise from husba1
I have heard the dropping of their tea or children would sweeten the deadly tc
In heaven these eighteen hundred yea and - ring forth the roses of youth. Tl
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man who could ·be eloquent to get his wi
"0 Lord and Master, not ours the guilt loses his vocabulary after he attains. It
We build but as our fathers built;
pie Dumb Devil that has done the work at:
Behold thine images, how they stand,
ought to be forcibly ejected. The Dev
Sovereign and sole, through all our
_rst makes a man silent, then selfish, the
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Please notice that statement in the star
And with sharp crooks of steel to k of )Ir. and Mrs. Sullivan last week that n
Still, as thou leftest them, thy sheep." fers to their church relationship. Throug:
ihe influence of our meetings Mr. Sulliva:
Then Christ sought out an artisan,
has been led to look more kindly on th
A low-browed, stunted, haggard man,
And a motherless girl, whose fingers peat church to whic.b. he once belonged
Pushed from her faintly want and sin. !:!nd yet some people who 1.-now nothing a
~I about us seem to think that our worl
ls in antagonism to all churches. The fac·
These set He in the midst of them,
And as they drew back their garment-h f the matter is that we do not proselyte
For fear of defilement, "Lo, here," said lther way, but simply provide a platforn:
r the expression of truth as viewed from
"The images ye ·h ave made of Me!"
-James Russell Low 11 sides. Sadly enough, this is so unusual
Proceeding that many people cannot un~erstand it. Doubtless down to the last we
Waste no pity on him who has los_t
suffer the criticism on our side that
ideal. Save. it for him who has loS t his lre are not religious and on the other will
sire for an ideal.
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,und me with Julia Ward Howe an'dlr========================================;-i
~ivermore plead!ng for school suf,
,nd I want a lot more suffrage before
:irough.
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Should we not try to make peopl&
.n this world, j11st because the last
By GEORGE W. COLEMAN, Director of the Ford Hall Meetings
e first and the first l&st in the nex
AS IT LOOKS TO ME
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said the chief priests and rulers -an
You will agree with me now, if you did
kings,
Dot before, that my friend Allyn _Foster,
Id, now, the Giver of all good things who talked to us on religion and science a
, let us welcome with pomp and sta fortnight ago, is a "hummer" even if he is
.v-ho alone is mighty and great."
a minister. How easy it is to become
,J )harasaical and think that all the "live
carI)€ts or gold the ground
ones"" are in our class-the laity! In many
ways I think Dr. Foster gave us the
spread
ever the Son of Man should tread; createst night we ever had at Ford Hall,
Ln palace-chambers lofty and rare
and I was as proud of the audience as I
lodged him, and served him wi was or him. He succeeded in setting forth
ID the !rankest and most convincing mankingly fare.
11. r the very fundamentals that have been
e
: organs surged through arches dim. at the bottom of all our success at Ford
BalL For the last six years we have ·b een
· jubilant floods in praise of him;
in church, and palace, and judgme »atiently working out these ideas; he gath.f t'ed them up and set them before us under
hall,
the spot-light of his illuminating personalaw his image high over all.
• And he had never seen us before.
still, wherever his steps they led,
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you recall that I said Dr. Foster of
Lord in sorrow bent down his head,
Is very clever with his pen? The
from under the heavy foundatirs are glad to print all they can
stones,
him. and he is wise enough to
Son of Mary heard bitter groans .
t there is more than one way to
Here is a pithy paragraph right
in church, and palace,
e midst of one of his editorials in
hall,
fer Gazctte :
marked great fissures that rent
'It Demon lays about him as of
wall,
deadly etrecr. As in the davs of
opened wider and yet more wide
the jawbone cf the ass slays its
the living foundation heaved
_L _ But the Dumb Devil adopts difsighed.
cs.. He paralyses the tongue so
not utter what it should. For
,ve ye founded your thrones, and al
:on that has heen slain by slander
then,
¬her that has been shrivelled bv
the bodies and souls of living men?
Yan., that are flu ent to criticise
i think ye that building shall endure
b to Praise. That is the devilish
ich shelters the noble and crushes 1
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A
BISHOP
WHO WORKS
SINGLE TAX.
FOR
THE
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Those critics of the church and churchmen who think that professing Christians
care little or nothing for social reform must _
experience decided chagrin when they first
encounter Bishop Charles Williams of
:\iichigan.
For devoted as Williams is
to -the work of the church body, whose high
official he has been called to be, he is scarcec
Jy less devoted to spreading the doctrines
of Henry George. At r.ny time he will •
cheerfully surrender the quiet of a ~ell~
earned evening at home for a gathering be-fore which he can present these doctines in
a ·helpful and persuasive manner.
No
speaker who ·c omes to us makes more
friends for the church-by virtue of his
simple manliness-than Bishop Williams;
no •Single Taxer is able to present more effectively this appealing economic doctrine.
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Fools are the •rungs in the ladder upon
which the wise. man climbs upward.
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I was glad to give way last week and
That very fact should be a ministry
o do everything we could to get read let the correspondent from Panama and Mr.
tyictorson have my space. I quite agree
Lt life.
;with the latter in his main contention. I
"'\\·as limiting my comment chiefly to the
A PARABLE.
~ubject of a more complete confidence be~hrist our Lord, "I will - o and see tween employers and their employees as to
g
he men, my brethren, believe in me.' profits and losses, while )I.Ir. Victorson
.ssed not again through the gate
takes in the whole field of economic discusbirth,
sion. :\lost disagreements -come from the
1ade Himself known to the childr fact that the disputants are not discussing
of earth.
the same thing.
3
come the complaint that we are religious.
Let us be content with the fact that we are
helping men and women to be more human
'and better neighbors to each other.
Rev. Nicholas Van der Pyl of Haverhill,
Mr. Stewart Anderson of Springfield, Dr.
Allyn K. Foster of Worcester and Mr. Miner
Chipman of Boston, :-i.11 warm friends of
ours, ,have been engaged to speak at the
Open Forum in Manch•
:ster, N. H. On all
their programs there they continue to give
most generous -credit to Ford Hall as the
source of their inspiration. Their printed
program in fact looks so much like ours
you would hardly notice the difference.
They
Mass.,
there.
former
are after me to go to Gloucester,
and help them establish a forum
Rev. Levi M. Powers, one of our
speakers, is active in the ·matter.
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Unselfishness: An intense desire to permit
others to do what you wish them,to do.
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The forum for young men Sunday afternoons at the Y. M. C. A. Building is gaining
fast. Sunday a week ago there were 185
present. The room was overflowed. If it
keeps on growing they wi!I sqon · .have-to
move into their big hall, whic h will seat
500.
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Put down now in _
your calendar the date
for -the next gatherin·g of the Ford Hall
Folks, January 25th. We often have sixty
to seventy in attendance now, but expect
to see it at one hundred.
Miss Cr awford has not recovered from
the heavy bronchial cold as quickly as was
hoped. While she has been confined to the
house for more than a week ( at the time
of this writing) she has had the devotion
and grit to attend to :mr work through -the
use of the mails and the telephone. In all
her five years of connection with the work
I do not think she has befor e missed t wo
Sundays at Ford Hall.
Do the work you are fitted to do. If you
are a pumpkin-vine do not try to become a
morning-glory.
,Ve get what our natures demand: the pig
Other Meetings
School of Social Science, Lorimer. Hall,
Monday, Jan. 12, 7.30 P. M., "Bernard Shaw
as a Social S!iIIlptom," by Dr. Stanton Coit,
10 cents.
Wells Memorial Institute, 987 Washington street, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 8 P. M., "The .
Rights of the Public in Labor Disputes," by
James A. McKibben.
Sunday Commons, Huntington Chambers
Hall, Sunday, Jan. 18, 3.30 P. M., Dr. Chas.
Fleischer, leader.
Public Library, Monday, Jan. 12. 8 P. M.,
"The Canadian Rockies, the Pa-cific Coast
and the Santa Fe Country," by Guy Richardson. Thursday, Jan. 15, 8 P. M., "How
the Masters Drew," by Wilbur Dean Hamilton. Sunday, Jan. 18, •3.30 P. M., "How to
Enjoy Pictures in Art and Nature," by
Henry Warren Poor.
·
Lowell Institute. Huntington Hall, Monday, Jan. 12, 5 P. M., " America and France in
Contact in the Past," by Fernand Baldensperger. Monday, Jan. 12, and Thursday, Jan.
15, 8 P. cVI., ;,The Man Behind the Vote,"
by Graham Wallas.
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for
Good Government.
Statesmen's ~ ting.
Tremont Temple. Saturd av. __J_::i nn ~!:.Y....21._ ~ t
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e saw his 1ma·ge mgn over au.
lt still, wherever his steps they led,
1e Lord in sorrow bent down his head,
11d from under the heavy foundati,
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stones,
b.e Son of ~ary heard bitter groans.
I in church, and palace,
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wall, '
nd opened wider and yet more wide
s the living foundation heaved
sighed.
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rut aown now m your calendar the date
for the next gatherin-g of the Ford Hall
Felks, January 25th. We often have sixty
to seventy in attendance now, but expect
to see it at one hundred.
"j;.i::i" ght of his Uluminating personal1
tJ'. A.Dd be bad never seen us before.
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is very clever with his pen? The
e.-spapers are glad to print all they can
trom him, and he is wise enough to
ow that there is more than one way to
each. Here is a pithy paragraph right
at of the midst of one of his editorials in
orce.ter
e won:ester Gazett e:
"The Talk Demon lays about him as of
,Jd with deadly effect. As in the days of
on the jawbone of the ass slays its
ousands. But the Dumb Devil adopts dif-
:erent tactics. He paralyses the tongue so
Jt cannot utter what it should. For
Have ye founded your
,very person that has been slain by slander
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then,
e.r e is another that has been shrivelled by
•n the bodies and souls of living men?
lence. Many that are fluent to criticise
..nd think ye that buildinq shall endure
dumb to praise. That is the devilish
Vhich shelters the noble and crushes
ick, and the Dumb Devil should be driven
poor?
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,u( o! doors forthwith . The tired wife and
other who knows no eig,h t-hour law,
With gates of silver and bars of gold
rudges for a lifetime without a word of
'.'.e have fenced my sheep from
ppreciation. A little praise from husband
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Father's fold;
\ have heard the dropping of their tea r children would sweeten the deadly toil
a
n heaven these eighteen hundred yea _ nd bring forth the roses of youth. The
man who could · e eloquent to get his wife
b
!o Lord and \.~st~r. not ours the guilt, loses his vocabulary after he attains. It is
llie Dumb Devil that has done the work and
We build but
our fathers - uilt;
b
ught to be forcibly ejected. The Devil
3ehold thine images, how they stand,
:t makes a man silent, then selfish, then
~overeign and sole, through all our
We get what our natures demand: the pig
has its sty, the bee has its hive, while the
eagle has its nest on the crag.
Ford Hall ·Folks
Edited by Thomas Dreier.
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Hall Associates, whose work
is to create, assemble, and
'listribute ideas that will help
men and institutions grow more
helpful in serving society, and which
will promote "peace on earth, good
will toward men." It is the official
nublication of the ·F ord Hall Meetings, which are held, under the direction of . George W. Coleman, every
Sunday evening during the months of
October to. May, in Ford Hall, Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts.
All budness communications should
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Treasurer Ford Building, Boston,
and all communi~ations intended for
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Please notice that statement in the story
r :llr. and Mrs. Sullivan last week that reers to their church relationship. Through
e influence of our meetings Mr. Sullivan
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Then Christ sought out an artisan,
been led to look more kindly on the
A low-browed, stunted, ha-ggard man,
: reat church to which he once belonged.
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And a motherless girl, whose fingers
nd yet some people who know nothing at
Pushed from her faintly want and sin.
1 about us seem to think that our work
in antagonism to all churches. The fact
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These set He in the midst of them,
f the matter is that we do not proselyte
And as they drew back their garment·.
ther way, but simply provide a platform
For fear of defilem._ent, "Lo, here," said
r the expression of truth as viewed from
," The images ye have made of Me!"
1 sides. Sadly enough, this is so unusual
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-James Russell Low
proceeding that many people cannot unI Waste no pity on him who has lost erstand it. Doubtless down to the last we
·1 all suffer the criticism on our side that
b
ideal. Save it for him who has lost his e are not religious and on the other will
c5ire for an ideal.
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are a pumpkin-vine do not try to become a
morning-glory:
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ro hold thy earth forever the same,
A.nd with sharp crooks of steel to k
Still, as thou leftest them, thy sheep."
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Miss Crawford has not recovered from
the heavy bronchial cold as quickly as was
hoped. While she has been confine.a to the
house for more than a week ( at the time
of this writing) she has had the devotion
and grit to attend to our work through the
use of the mails and the telepbone. In all
her five years of connection with the work
I do not think she has before missed two
Sundays at Ford Hall.
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Rights of the Public in Labor Disputes," by
James A. McKibben.
Sunday · Commons, Huntington Chambers
Hall, Sundar, Jan. 18, 3.30 P. M., Dr. Chas.
Fleischer, leader.
Public Library, Monday, Jan. 12, S P . M.,
"The Canadian Rockies, the Pacific Coast
and the Santa Fe Country," by Guy Richardson. Thursday, Jan. 15, 8 P. M., "How
the Masters Drew," by vViibur Dean Hamilton. Sunday, . Jan. 18, . 3.30 P . M., "How to
Enjoy Pictures in Art and Nature," by
Henry Warren Poor.
Lowell Institute, Huntington Hall, Monday, Jan. 12, 5 P . M., "America and France in
Contact in the Past," by Fernand Baldensperger. Monday, Jan. 12, and Thursday, Jan.
15, ·8 P. M., " The Man Behind the Vote,"
by Graham Wallas.
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for
Good Go vernment. Statesmen's Meeting.
Tremont Temple, Saturday, January 24, at
S P . M. Speakers: Senator Clapp of Minnesota, Senator Kenyon of Iowa,- Senator
Thomas of Colorado, Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont. Reserved seats 25 cents to $1. Tickets on salf' at 585 Boylston street.
Temple Adath Israel, Thursday, January
15, at 8 o'clock. Public conference on Immigration. Speakers : Miss Grace Abbott,
Executive Secretary, Massachusetts Immigration Commission; Dr. George W. Tupper,
State Secretary Y. M. C. A.; · Chairman,
Philip Davis.
THE MASSACHUSETTS SINGLE TAX LEAGUE
wants to get in touch with YOU.
Send your name and address to the Secretary,
F. C. COODALE
53 State Street
Boston, Mass.
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A space of this size-one inch high and
two and one-half inches wide-can be had
for advertising purposes for one dollar per
issue. For information regarding advertising apply· to Jacob Londor;, Room 707, Ford
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ABOUT PURPLE HATS AND BLUE.
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I have long contended that nearly everyMonday morning a few of them dribbled
body who attends the Folks Meetings - as a · back. There were enough who would come
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story; the degree of interest that story may to run three mills. All the others in the
attain depends on the ability of the inter- long row of mills were silent. Tuesday
viewer to dig it out and reproduce it in morning Number Four started up, Wednes•
words. Sometimes the story is amazingly day Number Five. By Thursday noon they
"good stuff" and easy to get withal. Such were all going.
is the story of John D. W. Bodfish, who
The same thing happened the week after,
spoke to us last Sunday on "Massachusetts' and the week after and the week after that.
The management tried everything they
Work for the Blind." Though severely
handicapped - imself, chis man is leading could think . of with their people-scolding,
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his class of seeing brothers in the Boston discharging, making their work • harder,
University Law School. Though without making t heir work easier, paying them less,
money or the backing of an y organization paying them more, two Baptist ministers
he recently polled an unexpectedly large and even a little Roman Catholic church.
As long as the negroes saw enough to eat
vote as Senatorial candidate for the Pro.not work. ·
gressives of the Cape District. And in an for three days, they would _
It began to look as if the mills would
age when it seems pretty difficult to some
of us to make a -comfortable living for one have to move back to Massachusetts, where
he has become so successful as a farmer and people looked anxious and where people felt
breeder of poultry that he is able to sup- poor, got up at 5 A. M. Mondays, and
port himself, - is wife and his young ba·by worked.
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·Suddenly one day the son of one of the
as well as pay all his Law School expenses.
owners, a very new-looking young man who
Some man, John Bodfish!
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Bodfish's cheerfulness is the quality that had never - een a business college a?rd who
always impresses me most, however.
The had run through Harvard almost wit'llo ut
book, and who really did not
first time he sought me out in my office looking at a •
high up in the Ford Building it seemed to seem to know or to care anything about anyme that here at last I had come upon arr thing-except folks-appeared on the scene
absolutely happy man.
He then had his with orders from his father that ·h e be set
wife with him, but this year, when she is to work.
The manager could not imagine what to
staying at home in West Barnstable looking
after little Miss ·B odfish, he is usually ac- do with him at first, but finally, being a boy
companied by a fellow student-also handi- who made people like him more than they
capped; this constant companion of Bod- ought to, he found himself placed in charge
fish's has lost an arm. He, too, is cheery. of the company store. The company ownec
Evidently it is not what a man has not but the village, and the company store, which
what he has that determines his -calibre, had been treated as a mere necessity in the
whether the thing he lacks ·be the sight of lonely village, had been located, or rather
his eyes or the service of his strong right dumped, at the time, into a building with
rows of little house-windows in it, a kind of
arm.
Bodfish started out in life as a teach:er, and extra storehouse on the premises.
The great problem of modern charity, the
it was while travelling back and forth in
the train from his home to the H yannis Nor- one with which society is largely occupied
mal School and trying to utilize for study today, is, "What is there that we can posthe hours thus at his disposal that he over- sibly do for our millionaires?"
strained his eyes and so became blind. As . The next thing society is going to do, persoon -as he realized his predicament he set haps, is to design a nd set up purple hats
himself with characteristic energy to make with blue feathers for millionaires.
The moment our millionaires have placed
the best of a bad matter. From one of the
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Of course there are better things to li'
for than purple hats and blue feathers
silver-headect canes and patent !eat
shoes; but if 9eople can be got to live six d
ahead, or thirty days or sixty days a·head,
stead of three days ahead, - y purple
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and blue feathers and white waistcoats,
if it is necessary to use purple hats
blue feathers to start people thinking .
months instead of minutes, or to bu
them over to where they can have a to
of idealism or of religion or of living
yond t he moment, I say for one, with all
heart, "God bless purple hats and h
feathers!"
The industrial question is not an
nomic question. It is a question of sup
ing a nation with ideals. It is a prob
which o- ly an American National Ideal S
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ply Company could hope to handle.
very first m0i::t'3nt three or four purple
with blue feathers for millionaires and :
laborers have been found and set up in
great show window of the world, t he
dustrial unrest of this century begins
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staying at home in West Barnstable looking
after little Miss Bodfish, he is usually accompanied by a follow smdent-also handicapped; this col!!!tant companion of Bodfish's has lost an arm. He, too, is cheery.
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what he has that determines his calibre,
whether the thing he lacks ·b e the sight of
his e·y es or the service of his strong right
.. arm.
Bodfish started out in life as a teacher, and
it was while travelling back and forth in
the train from his home to the Hyannis Normal School and trying to utilize for study
the hours thus at his disposal that he overstrained his eyes -and so became blind. As
soon as • e realized his predicament he set
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himself with characteristic energy to make
the best of a bad matter. From one of the
itinerant teachers sent out ·b y the Perkins
Institution he learned all that he could at
home, and then ·h e entered the school in
South Boston, and worked on with such success that he was soon sent by Superintendent Allen to organize the work for the blind
in Delaware. From that task he came
straight to Boston Univ1rsity and entered
the Law School. When asked his purpose
in taking up the study of law, Mr. Bodfish
said : "I ·h ave long been interested in public affairs and I realized my need of legal
training if I was to take part in P·Ublic affairs. Ever since entering Normal 'School I
have been interest~ in economics and industrial development. It seems to me that
industrial development is to be the most
important thing in the future, and to understand this I- must have a knowledge of
the law. You ask me as to whether or not
I intend to practice? This I cannot say at
present. I believe that there is a good field
for me in Barnstable and the surrounding
country and I may practice here, but my
real reason for comiug to law school is to
enter 'public life."
Of course such a man is keen over the
opportunities for development offered ·by
the Ford Hall Meetings. His questions are
among the most penetrating ever asked
here.
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to work.
The manager could not imagine what to
do with him at first, but finally, being a boy
who made people like him more than they
ought to, he found himself placed in charge
of the company store. The company owned
the village, · and the company store, which
bad been treated as a mere necessity in the
lonely village, had been located, or rather
dumped, at the time, into a building with
rows of little house-windows in it, a kind or
extra storehouse on the premises.
The great problem of modern charity, the
one with which society is largely occupied
today, is, "What is there that we can possibly do for our millionaires?"
. The next thing society is going to do, perhaps, is to design and set up purple hats
with ·b lue feathers for millionaires.
The moment our millionaires have placed
before them something to live for, a few
real, live, satisfying ideals, or splendid lasting things they can <lo, things that everybody else would want to do and that everybody else woul'd envy them for doing, it will
bore them to run a great business merely to
make money_ They will find it more interesting, harder, and calling for greater
genius, to be great and capable employers.
And when our millionaires once begin to
enter into -competition with one another in
being the greatest and most successful employers of labor on earth our industrial
troubles will' cease.
Millionaires who get as much work out
of their employees as they dare and pay
them as little as they can, ,a nd who give the
public as small values as they dare and take
as much money as they can, do such stupid,
humdrum, '!Onvemional things only because
they are bored, because they cannot really
think of anything to live for.
Laborers whose daily, hourly occupation
consists in seeing how much less work a
day than they ought to do they can do, and
how much m<Jre money they can get out of
their employers than they earn, do such
things only because they are tired or bored
and discouraged, and because they cannot
think of anything that is truly big and fine
and worth working for.
The first thing the young man did was to
stave four holes in the building, all along
the front and around the corners on the two
sides, and put in four big plate-glass windows. The store was mysteriously closed
up in front for a -few days to do this, and
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heart, "God bless purple hats and b
feathers!"
The industrial question is not an
nomic question. It is a question of sup
ing a nati'on with ideals. It is a Prob
which only an American National Ideals
ply Company could hope to handle.
very first mor:1~nt three or four vurvle fr
with blue feathers for millionaires and
laborers have been found and set up in
great show window of the world, the
dustrial unrest of this century begins
end.
When one employee is getting mone,
does not earn another employee is ear·
money he does not get.
Friends Who Are Coming
Jan. 11-Symposium, "What Is the M
With Our Public Schools?" Miss Mar
Slattery of Fitchburg and others to be
nounced .
Jan. 18-Bishop Charles Williams of
igan, "Why I Work for the Sin,g le Tax,"
Jan. 25-Dr. Albion Woodbury S
Chicago University.
Feb. 1-Alexander Irvine of New Yor:
Feb. S-Prof. Edward A. Steiner, '
Inter-National Mind and the InterHeart."
Feb. 15-Symposimn, "Breeding
Speakers to be announced.
Feb. 22-Charles Brandon Booth,
Case for the Prisoner."
March 1-Leslie Willis Spra.g ue of
cago.
March 8-Symposium, on "Journal'
A. J. Philpott of the Boston Globe and o
to be announced.
March 15-Rev. Harry Ward, "The
lenge of Socialism to Christianity."
March 22-Rev. . Frank 0. Hall
York, "The Moral Law."
March 29-John Cowper Powys
land, "The Economic Aspects of
Suffrage."
April 5-Mary Church Terrell, '
Sam and the Sons of Ham."
April 12-Dr. Thomas C. Hall of
York.
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April 19-Prof. Walter
Pearl Street, Boston, Mass.
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