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SOCIAL SINS. OVERCROWDING AND CHILD
LABOUR
"CATHEDRAL
Worge
being about 18 years old, living in country cottage, beautiful to the artist? eve, where there were only two bedrooms Housing conditions are often terribly bad in the country, but they are INTERESTING SERMON AT ST JOHN'S in the towns, where ferry builders and speculators have enriched themselves with out regard to the welfare of the poor. Preaching at St. John's Cathedral
And what are the conditions here in Sunday morning from the text But your colony I think that we have here have despised the poor, the Rey, H. much of which we may justly be proud. Copley Moyle said when we remember that 80 years ago The season of Lent is a time for retirely barren island we have reason to was an almost uninhabited and en
pentance, and, in order that we may repent, we must fully know and walls be proud of much that has been done our sins. As I was trying to point out here. Of the fine buildings which have boon come weeks ago, there is one class of sins otected the trees that have bein planted, which was a body, very often fail to the roads and paths which
have been con realine because the chore of ouch in that has been provided. Some employers
estructed and the excellent water dividual soms so slight. Yet those in
supply dividual sins join together to make up ing houses for their workers. But have of labour have done splendidly in provid the great masa of corporate sin which drugs us down as a whole nation and we not cause for searching of heart when eries to God for vengeance. We have to we see the housing conditions of parts of try and realise then that we are respon
Chinatown! Have you ever gone in the sible for the social sins of our country evening of a wet day to the top storey and Empire
of those unless We are
of some crowded
hose houses in the inost parts of this city. If you then you will know how you have those houses are how people are herded wgether like rabbits in a hutdi
laws of health are the same for Chinese as for
uropeans, and those. by such ovezerowd- She demands fresh air for health, and where these things are and deanliness as necessary wanting disease finds an easy prey
doing What
overcrowded
tan to stop the sk
Perhaps someone mean by social sins? And I do not think I can give you a botter answer than by saying that I mean the sins of a com. munity which has allowed and still allows such a state of things to exist as Tenny laws ntures Inws cannot be broken son speaks of in Locksley Hall, sixty years after, where he wrote ENE with
City children seak and blacken son ao
senso in city slime, There among the glocaning alleys Progress
halts on palsidd feet: Crimo and hunger cast our maidens by
the thousand on the streek, Where the master scrimps ha haggard
senstress of her daily bread,
are
It is not to he wondered at; therefore, is most prevalent in the most crowded that we are told that the present epidemic
are most frequent, and the whole com areas. Of course it is, and there deaths
munity is to
In nine cases out of ten it is the desire to make or save money
There augo sordid attic helds the living state of things allowing such
and the dedering fire of lever meep There the shouldering
poor.
that is responsible for the overcrowding across the rotted floor, And the crowded couch of ingest in the and so we are responsible for the sick And we have allowed it to take place, warrens of the We must remember that we are members caused by it. It is no use to say we are ness and disease and death which are of a great society which is called the not responsible, Am I my brother's
God answers us voice of What hast thou done? The
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by Jesus Christ, and for which sit still
Of
brother's lood, oriel unto moice of the
14 60 propagate the spirit of in the world and to apply His spirit which seems to go unchecked here Scu Or lupk at the evil of child labour.. to all the tasks and conditions of life the little girls and boys toiling up the The existence of such a state of things as Peak. ronds under burdens which strain described in the lines I have quoted in them and stunt their growth. See those undoubtedly true and constitutes a chal children whose tender age entitles them lenge to the Christian spirit. It is our to some of the joy of life, forced from yours and mine, to so think and their earliest years to a dull routine of duty speak and act as to make the continuance exa
such
zansk exacting a state of things in possible. No not given a chance of getting the educa monotonous labour, and antion which has such sins can expect to tion which might lift them above the lot continue to hold a leading place in the of beasts of burden. Well may we take watriotion, and without patriotism above the words of the prophet of you, make you clean put away nation can continue great,
evil of your doings from lelore We are therefore bound as Christians, jealous for the honour of the bullins, byes: chase to do evil; learn to de mane Christ died to redeem, and
relieve the oppressed us patriol jealous for the honour of our country wido
Judges thes
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a place like this, where
so tuany where Britons hold sway. We must not sary that the unanimous voile of all
pecially neces fet any selfish interest blind ozy eyes the sins which are being committed If there is
8 anything in...
no old,
of our
ancoine on which we feel the ing of God eannot come, then though it
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the warning of our Loi that A man's Christians should emphatically repeat
ness in our property, in the big 121o consisteth not in the abundance of
the things, which he possa 8th Better a thousand times better, to live and die. poor than to wax wealthy at the expense than to have money stained with the life load of others Church mast
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e and not a blessing, and we must each of its ties, the gilts, the property we have, we do what we can to help to form and main hold in trust for others, and if we retain & right standard in this matter cognise our trusteeship then all these Thore is temptation to which we things may be blessings to ourselves and liable and that is to say to ourselves to countless others, but if we begin to that though we can regard them as solely and exclusively our sins, we are not
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Dornfem them into a cursent that is not true What enables he
Lord when He was on customs to be maintained is the apathy earth never said it was wrong to be rich, of the average man and woman.
but He said it was dangerous, and He When each Christian is keen to see and unsparingly denounced the selfish se of eager to resist evil wherever it is found riches One young man He told to then bad sell all that he had
customs Dust
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and teach others to regard ourselves themselves (if they do not already) as trustees of what Are each
Per posted is because we have it is regard ourselves that the Wat has ben so to allowed to teach us this lesson. Th
The war has taught us, or at any rate it is teach- ing people at home, that our wealth our comforts, even life itself must be given up at the call of the nation's needin
A modern writer, Mr. Lilly, in bock entitled
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of moral
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the count If that principle had been recognised and acted upon we should not groaning to-day under the been burden of these social sins. But the perty have been missed owned property have been allowed to do with it and there have been cases in inconsistent with the welfare of the
a whole munity Re
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com
know a landlord of a vast eatato who would not allow any new house to e built on his property because he wished it to remain a quiet country place. result
was horrible'
overcrowding
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