The Church and Social Problems (Classic Reprint)

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This Christian study of Social Problems, while urging a plea for sympathetic consideration on the part of the Church, at the same time affirms that the Gospel of Christian redemption is the one great panacea for the evils of our time. Individual conversion has always been regarded as a primary note of the Church's testimony, yet the Gospel for the day should recognise social interests as an important part of its message, and sweep within sacred lines every department of human life and activity. Social reform ought never to draw the Church aside from her proper work of saving men, but the Church cannot well stand aside from the paths of social reform. After much study and long trial of methods in Home Mission work, the writer is convinced that efforts at social amelioration should be as comprehensive and many-sided as the evils we have to combat. The Church, to recall a sentence from The Speaker, must utter to the people a great Sursum carda a summons to the national mind to elevate itself to the level of the mighty problems of a completely new era. In this volume an attempt is made to examine some of these problems.

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