One of the things that depress U. S. liberal churchmen is that the Church is supported largely by the upper and middle classes, by people who believe that God is a capitalist. Although many churchmen have accustomed their congregations to socially radical words from the pulpit, most parsons pipe the tunes which businessmen call. Last week in a Chicago suburb (Barrington, Ill.) there was a prodigious politico-religious piping. Occasion: "The Barrington Town Warming Plan ... a combination of the early American town meeting and the old time religious revival." Tune-caller: Barrington's biggest business,...
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