The Church owns property, needs income, employs men, works on human material, and banks on its moral prestige. Its present efficiency and future stan… - Walter Rauschenbusch

The twin-evil against which the prophets launched the condemnation of Jehovah was injustice and oppression.

Christianity was rising when the ancient world was breaking down. By the time the Church had gained sufficient power to exercise a controlling influence, the process of social decay, like the breakdown of a physical organism in a wasting disease, was beyond remedy.

It is important to note, further, that the morality which the prophets had in mind in their strenuous insistence on righteousness was not merely the private morality of the home, but the public morality on which national life is founded. They said less about the pure heart for the individual than of just institutions for the nation.