Socialism and religion

In Socialism and religion socialist minister Reverend James O'Bryen Hoare writes of the the need for Socialism to become religious "...Why? Because religion is just as natural to man as his appetite for food, or the circulation of his blood."
This is bound with Hoare's essay on Socialism and modern problems and also printed by the Lyttelton Times Company, 1904. 

Hoare served as minister of St John the Baptist Anglican church which stood in Latimer Square, Christchurch (1865) and later at St Paul's, Papanui (1882).  He later left the Church of England to form his own Free Church.