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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 16.

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THERE comes to our table what is called "A Message from the Commission of the Church," styled also "The Church's Appeal in Behalf of Labor," and beginning with the words: "The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America unanimously adopted among other specific principles for which it asserts the church must stand: 'First—The gradual and reasonable reduction of the hours of labor to the lowest practicable point, and that degree of leisure for all which is a condition of the highest human life.'" The Church of Christ must stand for no such thing. That is a perversion of its mission. Its business is to preach the Gospel. The work committed to it is not industrial, commercial, political, but exclusively spiritual. Therefore such matter always passes on quickly to the waste-basket.
—Presbyterian Standard.