Blast furnaces are lurid enough to make striking symbols, and to many churchmen they have long been symbolic of evil. Few churchmen have ever been able to think of a blast furnace without considering how uncomfortable it would be to work near one and what long days the grimy, bemuscled thousands of the steel industry spend at their laborious, heated calling.
Some, however, do not think. Others think and discreetly do nothing. But out of the concern of a few churchmen for the welfare of tough-hided steelmen arose the war of Church v. Steel....
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