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 WORKINGMAN-S ALIENATION FROM THE CHURCH 629

the difficulty often is that the postulates of the workingman are

so wide of the truth that the church cannot champion them. It

is not true that men are in a prison-house and the church is

holding the key. The church may be depended upon to lead in

securing justice and truth. It must also warn the workingman

that his alienation often results from tendencies within himself

rather than within the church. The Jesus who is applauded by

the average workingman is a minimized Jesus Christ, a fictitious

person, not the Christ of the gospels.

H. Francis Perry. Englkwood Baptist Church, Chicago.