corporation, which the other day carried out the deportation from
their homes of a thousand striking miners at Bisbee, Arizona. Says my
Bishop:

Christ did not denounce wealth any more than he denounced
pauperism. He did not abhor money; he used it. He did not
abhor the company of rich men; he sought it. He did not
invariably scorn or even resent a certain profuseness of
expenditure.

And do you think that the late Bishop of J.P. Morgan and Company
stands alone as an utterer of scholarly blasphemy, a driver of golden
nails? In the course of this book there will march before us a long
line of the clerical retainers of Privilege, on their way to the New
Golgotha to crucify the carpenter's son: the Rector of the Money
Trust, the Preacher of the Coal Trust, the Priest of the Traction
Trust, the Archbishop of Tammany, the Chaplain of the Millionaires'
Club, the Pastor of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Religious Editor of
the New Haven, the Sunday-school Superintendent of Standard Oil. We
shall try the weight of their jewelled sledges--books, sermons,
newspaper-interviews, after-dinner speeches--wherewith they pound
their golden nails of sophistry into the bleeding hands and feet of
the proletarian Christ.

Here, for example, is Rev. F.G. Peabody, Professor of Christian Morals
at Harvard University. Prof. Peabody has written several books on the
social teachings of Jesus; he quotes the most rabid of the carpenter's
denunciations of the rich, and says:

Is it possible that so obvious and so limited a message as