Labour and Religion: By Ten Labour Members of Parliament and of Other Bodies: J. Keir Hardie...Arthur Henderson...John Hodge...Walter Hudson...Philip Snowden...Will Crooks, George Lansbury...Arthur Peters...Frederick Rogers...Will Steadman, Speakers in Browning Hall During Labour Week...Gibbs and Bamforth, Limited, printers, 1910 - 107 pages |
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appeal Applause ARTHUR HENDERSON ARTHUR PETERS Barrow-in-Furness believe better Bishop blessing born bring Browning Hall character Christ's teaching Christianity classes creed democracy desire earth economic elected fact faith father feeling Fellowship follow FREDERICK ROGERS friends GEORGE LANSBURY give Gospel hear heart hope human ideals individual J. H. THOMAS Jesus Christ JOHN HODGE joined KEIR HARDIE Kingdom Labour Members Labour movement Labour Party Labour Week Lansbury Laughter live London London County Council look Lord means meetings ment mind moral nation never Old Age Pensions organised PHILIP SNOWDEN political prayer realise religion religious remember rich selfishness Social Reform Socialist soul speakers spirit Stead Sunday sympathy temptation things are possible thought tion to-day to-night Trade Union Trade Union Congress true truth WALTER HUDSON wealth woman women words
Popular passages
Page 66 - Be strong! We are not here to play — to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle — face it; 'tis God's gift.
Page 78 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me As He died...
Page 72 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 84 - Look, FATHER, look on His anointed Face, And only look on us as found in Him ; Look not on our misusings of Thy grace, Our prayer so languid, and our faith so dim : For lo ! between our sins and their reward We set the Passion of Thy SON our LORD. And then for those, our dearest and our best, By this prevailing Presence we appeal ; O fold them closer to Thy mercy's breast, O do Thine utmost for their souls' true weal ; From tainting mischief keep them white and clear, And crown Thy gifts with strength...
Page 82 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 39 - For these things tend still upward, progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet. Nor shall I deem his object served, his end Attained, his genuine strength put fairly forth, While only here and there a star dispels The darkness, here and there a towering mind Overlooks its prostrate fellows : when the host Is out at once to the despair of night.
Page 7 - Blessed are ye that hunger now : for ye shall be filled : Blessed are ye that weep now : for ye shall laugh...
Page 17 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 49 - I have said, both in writing and from the platform many times, that the impetus which drove me first of all into the Labour movement, and the inspiration which has carried me on in it, has been derived more from the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, than from all other sources combined.
Page 8 - He hath put down the mighty from their seats, And hath exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things ; And the rich he hath sent empty away.