Religion: Man v. Society

By going into "the wholesale business" in his search for social reform, modern man is forgetting the Gospel of Christ and the importance of individual man, said Brown University's President Henry M. Wriston last week at the 40th annual convocation of Yale Divinity School. "There is more preaching about the evils of capitalism, of profits, of exploitation, than of the beauty of holiness."

Dr. Wriston did not deny the existence of society's ills. "There are many other institutions for improving the lot of mankind," he said, "and they are valuableĀ— the Red Cross, hospitals, labor unions and universities, the state and a...

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