SOCIAL CONSCIENCE By REV. W. ARTHUR

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SOCIAL CONSCIENCE
By REV. W. ARTHUR
Have not those who see and feel the importance of first seeking the regeneration of individuals, too often insufficiently studied the applicotion of Christianity to social evils ... Fearful social evils may co-exist with a state of society wherein many are holy, and all have a large amount of Christian light. The most disgusting slave-system, base usuages fostering intemperance, alienation of class from class in feeling and interest, systematic frauds in commerce, neglect of work-men by masters, neglect of children by their own parents, whole classes living in sin, usages checking marriage and encouraging licentiousness, human dwellings which make the idea of home odious and the existence of modesty impossible, are but specimens of the evils which may be left age after age, cursing a people among whom Christianity is the recognized standard of society. To be indifferent to these things is as unfaithful to Christian morals on the one hand, as hoping to remedy them, without spreading practical holiness among individuals, is astray from the truth on the other.