ABSTRACT
The Labour Church is an organised effort to develop the religious life inherent in the Labour Movement, and to give to that Movement a higher Inspiration and a sturdier Independence in the great work of personal and social regeneration. The Gospel of the Labour Church is that God is in the Labour Movement, working through it for the further emancipation of man from the tyranny, both of his own half-developed nature, and of those social conditions which are opposed to his higher development. The first Labour Church Service was held in Manchester on the first Sunday in October, 1891. In reading, prayer, hymn, and song the traditional forms and phrases of religion have been discarded, and every effort has been made to emphasize the religion, not of creed or of history, but of actual everyday life, and especially of the great and growing Labour Movement. More recently Labour Churches have been formed in Bradford and other towns.
