The Light of the East January 1945

to be found in all the books of the New Testament we may well ask what these Christians make out of the two 5"greatest Christian mysteries which they believe in as firmly as we do the Incarntion of the Son of God and the Passion and Resurrection of the Son of Man. [...] As a matter of fact the only excuses that can validly be brought forth for offering or paying wages inadequate to the needs of the worker or to the exchange value of his labour are that " the business cannot pay such wages without ruin and without consequent distress amongst the working people theselves " ( who would thus become unemployed ) and the necessities of the common good which deman [...] After reminding us in his Whitsunday 1941 address " of the natural right of every individual to make work the means of earning his own livelhood and that of his children" ( p.12 ) he insists in his Christmas 1942 allocution on the fact " that the Church does not hesitate to draw the practical conclusions of this principle and to give them the support of her authority. [...] For here is the significant section 130 of the Report : " The correlative of the State's undertaking to ensure adequate benefit for unavoidable interruption of earnings however long is enforcement of the citizens' obligation to seek and accept all reasonable opportunities of work to co-operate to measures designed to save him from habitution to idleness and to take all proper measures to be [...] The purpose of this is not that these become negligent about working for man is born to labour as the bird to fly ; 10"but that by thrift they may increase their possessions and by the prudent management of the same they may be enabled to bear family burdens with greater ease and security; and that being freed from the uncertainty which is the lot of the proletarian they may not only be in a po