we consult the Jewish policy
instituted by God himself, or the uniform opinion and
practice of mankind in all ages, or the injunctions of the
New Testament and the moral law, we are brought to the
conclusion that slavery is not immoral. Having established
the point that the first African slaves were legally brought
into bondage, the right to detain their children in bondage
follows as an indispensable consequence. Thus we see that
the slavery that exists in America was founded in right."

It is not at all remarkable that this same note should have
been struck by the Church a generation or so later in
relation to the defence of capitalistic property. In the
great museum at Asgard there is a book entitled "Essays in
Application," written by Henry van Dyke. The book was
published in 1905 of the Christian Era. From what we can
make out, Van Dyke must have been a churchman. The book is a
good example of what Everhard would have called bourgeois
thinking. Note the similarity between the utterance of the
Charleston Baptist Association quoted above, and the
following utterance of Van Dyke seventy years later: "The
Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to
every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to
general laws."

"I did not know," the Bishop murmured faintly. His face was pale, and he
seemed suffering from nausea.

"Then you have not protested?"

The Bishop shook his head.

"Then the Church is dumb to-day, as it was in the eighteenth century?"

The Bishop was silent, and for once Ernest forbore to press the point.

"And do not forget, whenever a churchman does protest, that he is
discharged."

"I hardly think that is fair," was the objection.

"Will you protest?" Ernest demanded.

"Show me evils, such as you mention, in our own community, and I will
protest."

"I'll show you," Ernest said quietly. "I am at your disposal. I will
take you on a journey through hell."

"And I shall protest." The Bishop straightened himself in his chair, and
over his gentle face spread the harshness of the warrior. "The Church
shall not be dumb!"

"You will be discharged," was the warning.

"I shall prove the contrary," was the retort. "I shall prove, if
what you say is so, that the Church has erred through ignorance. And,
furthermore, I hold that whatever is horrible in industrial s