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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