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shah be co-heirs and owners. As to-day the organised power of the State theoretically guarantees to every individual his political rights, so in the Socialist Republic the power and productive forces of organised society will stand between every individual and want, guaranteeing that right to life without which all other rights are but mockery. Short of the complete dispossession of the capitalist class which this implies there is no hope for the workers. SPEED THE DAY. THE CHRISTIAN SOCIAL UNION The Union consists of members of the Church of England who have the following objects at heart:-- 1. To claim for the Christian law the ultimate authority to rule social practice. 2. To study in common how to apply the moral truths and principles of Christianity to the social and economic difficulties of the present time. 3. To present Christ in practical life as the living Master and King, the enemy of wrong and selfishness, the power of righteousness and love. THE CHURCH SOCIALIST LEAGUE _Principles._--The Church has a mission to the whole of human life, Social and Individual, Material and Spiritual. 2. The Church can best fulfil its social mission by acting together in its corporate capacity. 3. To this end the members of the League accept the principles of Socialism. _Object._--To secure the corporate action of the Church on these principles. _Method._--1. To cultivate by the regular use of prayer and sacraments the life of brotherhood. 2. Members undertake to help each other in fulfilling the object of the League by speaking and lecturing and in other ways. 3. Members shall co-operate as far as possible to secure the consideration of social questions at their various Ruridecanal and Diocesan Conferences and the election of Socialists on these and other representative bodies. 4. Members shall work for the disestablishment of the patron and the substitution of the Church in each parish in conjunction with the Church in the diocese in the patron's place. 5. To secure the representation of the wage-earning classes upon all the representative bodies of the Church. GUILD OF ST. MATTHEW _Objects._--1. To get rid, by every possible means, of the existing prejudices, especially on the part of "Secularists," against the Church, her sacraments and her doctrines: and to endeavour to "justify God to the people." 2. To promote frequent and reverent worship in the Holy Communion,
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