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The subscription price is $2.00 a year; in bundles of ten or more for sale at the church, the paper selling at five cents, we bill quarterly at three cents a copy. Entered as Second Class Matter April 3, 1919, at the postoffice at Chicago, Illinois, under act of March 3 1879. T he Christian Way Out By EDWARD L. PARSONS The Bishop o f California O CHRISTIAN doubts that the basis of a Chris­ been to the strong; and the strong have, as is usual N tian world order is indicated in the trite but mo­ throughout history, thought of themselves. The present mentous words “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy­ task is to secure the weak; but again American indi­ self.” The Kingdom of Cod which we seek to estab­ vidualism deceives us. The dole is un-American, we lish among men means, if are told. But it is neither intelligent nor Christian to love is its basis, a coopera­ talk of unemployment and other forms of social in­ tive society in which the wel­ surance as “ doles ;” nor to ignore the fact that what­ fare of each of its members ever charity may do to the giver, certainly when it takes is the concern of all. the place of work it steadily lowers the self respect of That such a social order its beneficiaries. It is useless however to grow indig­ would be a radical change nant at these slogans of the competitive system. What from our present order, a we want is not indignation. We want cooperative fairly complete overturning sense and Christian thought for the welfare of all. Un­ of it, is clear enough as we employment insurance, old age security, large scale and try to think carefully of the long range planning o f production for both volume and effect of such love as our seasonal and- technological shifts, are the kind of steps Lord exemplified on some of which lie directly before us. The Christian way out our immediate problems. The means in the large that cooperation must replace com­ Christian way out at any mo­ petition. It means that for the moment the imperative ment is found first by seeing our goal as such a radical steps are to secure the worker. change, and then heading in that direction. W e all agree on the goal. On the exact path we may well dif­ T 3 R E C IS E L Y the same principles hold in interna- fer. The march is long and difficult but it is worth tional relations. Apply “love thy neighbor as while to try to think about it. W e must however really thyself” to the tariff* and what happens! The whole think and not just “rearrange our prejudices.” fabric of international relations is seen to be based up­ Take the industrial situation in America. Eight mil­ on the same anti-Christian competitive principle. The lion men or more out of employment, production and economic structure of the world, working pretty well consumption so badly coordinated that people starve for America in the days when we were really self con­ with plenty all about them; wealth so badly distributed tained, is part of it. The Christian way out begins that over against the eight millions who are on the here even more than in our domestic questions with the verge of starvation are eight with incomes of over five attempt to think from the Christian point of view. If million dollars each. There are plenty of projects to we do we see that the tariff is not an American ques­ end the depression; but hardly a sign of leadership in tion but an international question. It has direct moral finance, industry o r politics which looks beyond end­ bearings. Tariffs engender hostility. They are petty ing the depression to radical measures of cure. The nationalistic devices of the kind which prepare the way sight before our eyes is the fruit of utterly un-Chris­ for war. tian principles, the flowering of selfish competition. The Such a view is still clearer in regard to war debts shibboleth “American individualism” (a fine thing in and reparations.- The world groans under the weight pioneer days and a fine thing still if guided right) of them; but America’s official position, backed I fear blinds our eyes to what has happened. The battle has by a very large section of -our people, is that .it is a Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS March 3, 1932 business matter and that Europe can get out of its own under ours. Even the proven value of the League of mess. A t any rate Europe must pay. It is quite incon­ Nations and the World Court and the innumerable ar­ ceivable by the way that sane men could have ever bitration treaties, a value based upon the fact that imagined that nations would go on carrying these debts they represent cooperation, has not prevented fear and for sixty years, long after the people and leaders whose fear has piled up the colossal armaments of the pres­ folly incurred them had passed from this world. ent day world. The Christian way out is altogether ob­ vious. For the world the first and immediate step is to The Christian way out in these matters is first of all make the Disarmament Conference a success. For to see clearly that we have a world problem which must America it is to sweep away the wicked isolationist be dealt with cooperatively. Then we must call the ex­ policies which have guided us; to1 recognize that we perts and say, “Relieve us of our burdens.” To the belong to the family of nations; to join the World man untrained in economics, but burning to lift the Court and the League; in other words to be true to burden of the poor, that means reduction of tariffs, our best traditions and not afraid tO' take chances.