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Show John Malick quickly in body. blotting out. our Nature is indifferent to individual She is careful of the type. This law has been operative, very generally, in human society. Taking cognizance of human failures is a new force in human society. failure and factory population and immigration brought to our doors a new realization of the human wreckage that goes down in the unequal struggle for existence. Our own men in Boston and New York, who began to delve into this human scrap pile, instituted the first relief offered. They collected facts, and sought for cause. Perhaps few pulpits more than our own diffused this knowledge among the people. Then the of this why repetition of charity every generation. Social philosophers went deeper. This wreckage, they said, is the fruit of our industrial life. Charity became out of date, as originally administered, and work was entered following longer lines. The humanitarian instinct, strong within us, took up the new industrial freedom, reaching in some cases eighty per cent of the whole number of discourses for the The Many saw in the new time the moral crisis of the slavery days and heard the abolition call. Pulpit and the church machinery must be connected up with the economic year. program. The average minister, who is a middle-of-the-road man, was another hated by one group because he went so far and the other group because he did not go far enough. This abolition aggressiveness which would hitch not only the church wagon but all wagons to its star, is an unfortunate analogy. Slavery, as an institution, went out of the world with the fourteenth century. Its lingering here was the last stand of the institution. It covered only a part of the country. problem is as old as humanity and will continue as long as humanity is here. If the church is to enter the field as a specialist in applied economics, it enters on a long career. It is not the temporarily getting back of a The economic 233 |
