Socialism and Christianity are not alternatives between which one must choose, still less antagonists of which if we love the one we must hate the other, but allies, since they avow the same essential ethics and seek in great part the same ends. They can mutually do each other good, for it is doubtless true that Christianity would be the better for being socialized, and it is certain that Socialism greatly needs to be spiritualized. The peril of Christianity is that men may be persuaded to attempt a divorce of piety from social righteousness; and the peril of Socialism is a bald, crass, brutal materialism. But though at bottom friendly, and capable of a close alliance and mutual helpfulness, Socialism and Christianity can never be identified. Christianity stands first of all for the redemption of the individual, for his emancipation from the slavery of sin to the status of a free man, for the restoration in him of the defaced image of God — this as an indispensable preliminary to a new social order, but certainly issuing in a new social order. It must continue to insist that the regeneration of the individual precede the regeneration of society; the new man must be born or the new society can never be. It is by this renovation of individuals, one by one, that society can be renovated, and there is no hope but this for the uplifting of the race. But it may be gratefully acknowledged that this work of individual renovation can be decidedly promoted by a general betterment of social conditions; the two lines of labor are mutually helpful, and mutually and continually interact; and at that precise point, therefore, Christianity and Socialism can join hands in common effort. FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT, IT'S COMING YET FOR A' THAT, THAT MAN TO MAN, THE WARLD O'ER SHALL BROTHERS BE FOR A' THAT. INDEX Adulteration, stimulated by competi- | Auspitz, Socialistic community of, 21. tion, 293. Agape, 443. Alcohol, cost of, to society, 319-321; Amana colonies, 229. Austerlitz, socialistic community of, Baer, President, 247. Bakunin, becomes an anarchist, 151; Anabaptists, and Socialism, 14 seq.; Barnabas (apostle), 440. their real offence, 475. Ananias and Sapphira, 440. Barnabas, epistle of, 441. Bax, E. Belfort, 210; on asceticism, 253. Anarchists, philosophical, 166; violent, Bebel, F. A., and German Socialism, 168 seq. Anarchy, not Socialism, 7; impracti- Antisocial law, in Germany, 97. Aristocracy, and Socialism, 279; influ- ence of, on theology, 476. 93; on disorder in Russia, 170; on Begbie, Harold, and "Twice Born Bellamy, and his "Looking Backward," Bernard of Clairvaux, 253. Blanc, Louis, and State Socialism, 64 Blatchford, Robert, and the Clarion, Aristotle, ethics, 351, 371; on love to Boss, the, and Socialism, 305. Armaments, burden of, 433. Arnold, Matthew, on social inequality, Art, social significance of, 203; effect of Socialism on, 309. Brook Farm, 232. Brotherhood, taught by Jesus, 363, | Burns, John, 216. Business, a gamble, 273; what it re- Calvin, his theology, 473, 476. Canon (N. T.), 464. "Capital," the, of Marx, 112, 113, 136; 208, 211. Capitalism, rise of, 37; growth of, 44; ism, 441; its primitive social fea- Civilization, progress of, 271; and 434. Clarion, newspaper, 210, 211, 214. Carlyle, his gospel of work, 30; his Clemens Alexandrinus, 461. Celibacy, of Jesus, 392, 395; approved by the Church, 394. Collectivism, see Socialism. Charity, social meaning of, 242; not Communism, distinguished from So- almsgiving, 423, 524. Chartism, 196 seq. Child labor, 186 seq.; 253, 254, 325. under Constantine, 465, 467. cialism, 5; a levelling down, 168; at Competition, in theory free, 43; waste Constantine, his policy, 465, 466. |