A New Sociology

Only during the Mills meetings ïas a larger audience gathered this ?ear in University hall than asserasled Sunday eve. to hear Prof. Geo. D. Herrón on "The Social Revolution. " The music was led by a seect choir from the S. C. A., which renúered a chorus fron "Th Crea tion." The S. C. A. feels that it is furnishing a great opportunity in securing the course of lectures of whicli this was the first. Dr. Herrón is principal of instruction and organization in the American Institute of Christian Sociology, and is the leading advocate and expounder of this nevv school of social science. The speaker set forth the error and fault of the present condition of society, and offered Christian sociology as the only solution. Ideas and not institutions rule the world. Great ideas arousing great passions come to stay. Two thousand years ago the ruling idea was redemption. At a later time God planted the idea of liberty in society, and John Huss, Martin Luther and Savonarola came forth as exponents of that idea. The idea of the present is that sociology should be emphasized above theology. The time is ripe for a great social revolution that will take hold of the minds of men. Such a revolution is not to destroy but to organize society and build on a natural foundation. The most dangerous are they who say that good can not be made better. It is they who are the real anarchist?. Society bas been in a state of industrial lawlessness. The idea that competition is the life of trade is a falsehood. Modern monopolies are the fruit of competition. The great social question of today is whether or not capital can be brought under natural laws. The present winter has tested American civilization and found it wanting. Such sutïering as there has been this winter is wholly unreasonable and inexcusable in a country the richest in the world. Something is wrong. But the causes are not those discussed by the press. The cause lies in the error of present social organization. Christian sociology is therefore offered as the solution of social unrest. It sets forth the Christian law as the legitímate authority to rule social practice, and aims to apply the principies of Christianity to the social and economie difficulties of the present. This means philanthropy in its broadest sense, a sociology according to Christ. One may keep all the commandments and yet not live to this ideal. He is a Christian who gives himsElf to be bread and meat for his fellow men. Life consists not in pursuit of happiness, but in the pursuit of justice. Society is entering upon a new era, a social revolution in which it will itself be re-christianized.