Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1919

126 MINUTES OF THE SYNOD OF THEpolitically, socially, commercially, and religiously. The interestelicited is manifest in the sums which the people contributetoward the movement.True to the spirit of our Covenanter Church which sftoodforemost in the fight against the enslavement of the black men,we feel it the present duty of every Covenanter to be closelyidentified with the battle now in progress against the moreintolerable slavery of Mormonism.tWorld Peace.The carnal warfare at the battle fronts has been ended inglorious victory. The larger war—the moral and spiritual battleis yet to be won. We must now fight, not against flesh andblood, but against principalities and powers and sin in highplaces, if we are to conserve the moral values attained at thecost of blood and treasure, and lay the foundations of worldwidepeace. Our Association, fully awake to its opportunityand responsibility, has spared no pains or effort to make knownthe principles and institutions which alone will solve the problemsconfronting the world. Numerous interviews have beenarranged with representatives of our government at Washington,formal letters urging the acknowledgement of the Princeof Peace in the Peace Pact were sent to the Peace Conference,and our General Superintendent, now in Paris, has been successfulin gaining a hearing before representatives of the delegationfrom America and fifteenother countries. The latestreport is that there is good prospects of meeting more of them.Bolshevism and Industrial Justice.Bolshevism is the breath of the bottomless) pit, blowingacross the world. It repudiates God, and Jesus Christ and themoral law. The doctrine of devils incarnated in the GermanEmpire produced the brutal Hun hordes. Extreme Marxianismincarnated in the individual produces the Bolshevist. Whileclaiming to right the wrongs of society it proceeds to wipe outall social order and exercises a tyranny a thousand times moreterrible than that which it seeks to remedy. Its very ex&temce,however, serves notice upon Christendom that the cause of theoppressed, crushed under the juggernaut of Capitalistic greed,must be heard and the problem squarely met.Convinced that the only cure of all the world's ailments isChrist and His Gospel, that the Kingdom of Christ, realized, isthe best conditions under which society can exist, and that wehave a message and can do a work to meet the needs of thehour,our association has established a new department of "In--;dustrial Justice." It has been well organized under a verycompetent director and is not only advocating Christian educationof the masses as the Cure for- Bolshevism, but the applicationof Christian principles as the only means of establishingjustice and peace in the realm of industry.The Third World Christian Citizenship Conference.The preliminary conference of this great world gatheringwasThe "Declarationheld in JuneofofPrinciples"last yearframedand wasbymorea commissionthan a success.repre-