Man, the social creator / by Henry Demarest Lloyd.

  • Henry Demarest Lloyd
Date:
1906
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Credit: Man, the social creator / by Henry Demarest Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    together in doing right and undoing wrong—the love of God and man. By their fruits ye shall know them— religions as well as men. The religion of labour is not a new religion. It is the hope and prayer of labour, which is the people, which is the poor—that out of its pain, poverty and want it may be shaping a new loving- cup for the old religion. Our Mayflower Pilgrims had the courage to begin the pilgrimage out of England into Holland, which continued to Plymouth Rock and Independence Hall, because, as their Pastor Robinson said: “They were persuaded that God had still greater truths to break forth out of his Holy Word.” Before leaving the sweet fields and homes of England they made the Pilgrim’s Covenant of 1602, under the sacred rafters of Scrooby Church, “ to walk together in all the Lord’s ways made known or to be made known.” The religious news of to-day is that this pilgrimage is still continuing, and is becoming a new crusade to carry the banners and the cross of the old religion into the new worlds of modern business and industry. This is the Religion of Labour. Its texts—texts of love, of the God- hood of Man, and the Manhood of God—are all old. What is new is that with all their failures men have harvested success enough out of their past covenants of the Family, Church and State to give them courage to try a new covenant, which will be the greatest covenant of all. New truth is breaking forth and men are learning to walk together in many new ways, “made known and to be made known” in public life and private. Modern democracy is the first-born son of the liberty that came with Christ, and the first-born son of Democracy in Government will be Democracy in Industry. First the freedom of the worshipper, then the freedom of the citizen, now the freedom of all men as workers.
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