By
Prof. David J. Engelsma
Professor of Dogmatics in the Protestant Reformed Seminary
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Published by:
Peace Protestant Reformed Church
18423 Stony Island Ave. | Lansing, IL 60438
(PRC web page - http://www.prca.org)
Preface
"This pamphlet is the revised text of a speech on the subject of
labor union membership given in Lansing, Illinois under the auspices of
the Evangelism Committee of the Peace Protestant Reformed Church of Lansing.
The fact that the speech was given in a south suburb of that great center of
labor unionism accounts, in large part, for the repeated references to Chicago.
"During my fourteen-year pastorate of a congregation in the Chicagoland area,
I came to know firsthand the violence, threats, intimidation, beatings,
maimings, murders, mayhem, ruthlessness, contempt for law, and corruption
of the labor unions. I remember distinctly the murder of a trucker on I-80/94
east of South Holland, Illinois during a Teamsters Union strike. Union
enforcers dropped large chunks of concrete from an overpass on the
unsuspecting driver.
"The stand against labor union membership by the Christian defended in
this pamphlet is principled. It is a stand based on Scripture’s
condemnation of unionism’s constitutional nature. It is also a stand
that is well aware of the actual spiritual condition and conduct--the
ungodliness--of the unions, which every member willingly joins and for whose
constitution, condition, and conduct every member makes himself responsible
before God the Judge."
http://www.prca.org/current/Articles/Labor_Union_Membership_by_DJE.htm
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"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
2 Timothy 3:12
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