M.E. Socialism
The New York Herald Tribune last week headlined its report of a violent day in the Central Methodist Church, Brooklyn: METHODISTS RUB SOCIALIST TRACE OUT OF PLATFORM.
But had they? Scarcely one Methodist knew.
The Social Service Committee had brought in a report to the Eastern New York division of the Methodist Church urging government ownership of natural resources, railroads, banks, steel, cotton and woolen mills. Said the report: "We must of necessity face frankly the fact that Capitalism is un-Christian and unethical, and then consider ways and means of replacing it." To...