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Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

Book VIII: The Church

Contains passages, both of exhortation and denunciation, dealing with the relation of the church toward modern problems, and the effort to bring back a property-strangled institution to the revolutionary gospel of its founder.
God and My Neighbor—Robert Blatchford
From the Gospel of Luke
From the Bottom Up—Alexander Irvine
From the Gospel of John
The Inside of the Cup—Winston Churchill (1871–1947)
Trinity Church—Edwin Davies Schoonmaker
The Church and the Workers—Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918)
Tainted Wealth—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
The Collection—Ernest Howard Crosby
Émile De Lavelaye
The Voice of the Early Church. I.—Clement of Alexandria (d. c.215)
The Voice of the Early Church. II.—Tertullian (c.160–c.230)
The Voice of the Early Church. III.—St. Cyprian (200?–258)
The Voice of the Early Church. IV.—St. Basil (c.330–379)
The Voice of the Early Church. V.—St. Ambrose (340?–397)
The Voice of the Early Church. VI.—St. Jerome (c.347–420?)
The Voice of the Early Church. VII.—St. John Chrysostom (c.347–407)
The Voice of the Early Church. VIII.—St. Augustine (354–430)
The Voice of the Early Church. IX.—St. Gregory the Great (c.540–604)
The Annexing of Christianity (From “The Call of the Carpenter”)—Bouck White (1874–1951)
Preface to “Major Barbara”—G. Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
Prince Hagen—Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)
The Prince—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527)
Children of the Dead End—Patrick MacGill
Incantations—Max Eastman (1883–1969)
Exit Salvatore—Clement Wood (1888–1950)
From Micah
The Saint—Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911)
The New Rome—Robert Buchanan
The Priest and the Devil—Féodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81)
Work According to the Bible—T. M. Bondareff
Resurrection—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
Sunday (From “Challenge”)—Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977)
Isaiah
To the Preacher (From “In This Our World”)—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
The Reluctant Briber—Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936)
Savonarola (1452–98)
The Preacher (From “The Canterbury Tales”)—Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340–1400)
Twentieth Century Socialism—Edmond Kelly
The True Faith (From “A Lay Sermon to Preachers”)—Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929)
God in the World (From “Gitanjali”)—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
Priests (From “Songs for the New Age”)—James Oppenheim
Brotherhood (From “The Book of The People”)—Robert de Lamennais (1782–1854)