Author Charles Sheldon Speaks

In his famous book, “In His Steps,” Charles Sheldon helps make clear the disaster of the western economic system. Call it whatever name you will, the system, as Sheldon’s character says, is rotten to the core. 

 “ We’ve got to have a new start in the way of government. The whole thing needs reconstruction. I don’t look for any reform worth anything to come out of the churches. They are not with the people. They are with the aristocrats, the men of money. The trusts and monopolies have the greatest men in the churches. The ministers as a class are their slaves.  What we need is a system that will start from the common basis of…the rights of the common people – –“

                                                             — Charles M. Sheldon in *In His Steps*

Strong words?  Yes. Of course not every church or minister is so complacent. However, the reality is that too many are.