The Social Creed of the Churches (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Social Creed of the Churches The declaration of principles, which has come to be popularly known as "The Social Creed of the Churches, " was adopted in its present form at the quadrennial meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America at Chicago, December, 1912. It is, therefore, an expression of the social faith of thirty-one Protestant denominations comprising some seventeen million members. At the first meeting of the Federal Council of Churches at Philadelphia, 1908, the common life and common program of Christianity found expression in the first statement of this "social creed." This was confined almost entirely to the field of industrial relations. The later form covers the whole field of social action. The statement of industrial and social principles formulated by the Federal Council of Churches in 1908 was a part of the significant report of its committee on "Church and Modern Industry, " and reproduced, with some additions, a declaration adopted at Baltimore in May, 1908, by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This action, taken a few months before the assembling of the first Federal Council of Churches, was thus the first crystallization into concrete demands of the common conviction of the Protestant churches concerning their duty in the field of social and industrial relations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.