Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — Sin and Social Reform. [ARTICLE]

Sin and Social Reform.

In a recent noteworthy address, Mr. Frederick Bogers, the secretary of the National Committee of Organized Labor, laid great stress upon an Obstacle which frequently thwarts those who are working for the amelioration of social evita. To that barrier to progress in righteousness, which is no mere product of modern conditions or modern life, we did not hesitate to give Its plain name of sin. Theories of “imperfection" and "evotatkm" will not make it anything else than it is, though they may label it with finer titles. Mr. Rogers holds tha* What man was in the days of the Pharaohs, in the days of Homer, In the days of Christ, that in essentials be is today. * ♦ • The greatest enemy to social reform is individual atn, and no reform worth working for wfH ever come to any society which ignores or misunderstands that Wjonflnsi Christian.