Download or read book The Christian Century Volume 38, No. 1 written by Christian Century Company and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...pursued prosperity and has evolved a technique primarily for wealth production which is identified by some with Americanism. Great Britain has vacillated between a love of freedom and a passion for empire and has in consequence evolved a muddled self-contradictory technique. Hence her European reputation for hypocrisy. What if the youth of Germany, America and Britain could be mobilized for the realization of a city of God, in the village and the small town, in city, nation and the world! 'if this seems too 'harsh a judgment, let the following quotation Justify it. It is from a letter written by the Vice-President and General Manager of the Employers' Association of Pittsburgh to its members: "Some of the things that the Y. W. C. A. believes in and endorses are as follows: industrial democracy, collective bargaining, a share in shop-control and management by the workers, labor's desire for an equitable share in the profits and management of industry. protection of workers from enforced employment: 1 minimum wage, government la-bor exchanges, experiments in cooperative ownership. The Y. W. C. A. has done and is doing a good work along some lines; and it is greatly to be regretted that they have taken this excursion into a ileld about which they know practically nothing, and thus lend encouragement to what every man conversant with industrial problems knows to be destructive of the very basis of America's progress and civilization. II THE FAITH Life is a process working out and moving towards its own realization in perfect love; and this process is the will of God.'r Faith is the will to face life on the assumption that God is love and that he is always actively on the side of those whose life, aspiration and...