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duty, inculcated in every individual and based upon our
responsibility to the God who created us, and who
thundered from Sinai, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself.” We have all been insistent upon our individual
rights, and we have been remiss in our duties. The great
moral task of humanity is to make the sense of duty as
alert as is the sense of justice, to place behind the former
a noble vehemence that will hold men true to the spiritual
ideals in which alone they can find peace. Moral and
social confusion everywhere prevails. If in the past Prop-
erty had been conscious of its obligations and generous in
interpreting them, we should not know the present social
cleavage that has reached to the foundations of life. If
Industrial Power, after gaining lordship over millions of
lives, had been as keen in understanding its social duties,
the laboring class would not have been led into the con-
ditions that we know. If the laboring class itself, despite
wrongs and long delayed justice, had maintained a bal-
anced sense of duty and had held true to larger ideals, it
would have been spared many sad pages in its history. If
government, organized primarily for distributive justice,
had given earlier definition and far more effective sanction
to the general welfare and the rights of the weaker classes,
we should have been adequately protected against the
futile idealism that threatens to-day. The appeal that
radical movements now make to the thousands whom they
mislead is effective because of the traditions that the or-
ganized laboring classes carry in their memory.

Men cry out that Christianity has failed, that the Church
is helpless because men do not accept, and many professed
Christians do not apply, the gospel precepts. Christianity
has not failed. Its Founder came in the poverty and want
of the cattle stable. He died bruised and broken upon the

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