ISBN: 9780217800273

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… Meer...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 4; Original Publisher: Scholars Press; Publication date: 1911; Subjects: Theology; Religion / General; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic; Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / Theology; Books Harvard-Theological-Review~~Harvard-Divinity-School General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SOCIAL SETTLEMENT AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS GAYLORD S. WHITE Union Settlement, New Yobk More than a quarter of a century has elapsed since a letter, written by a passenger on an English railway train as he sat on the bank beside the track waiting for a broken-down engine to be repaired, resulted in the founding of the first Social Settlement. The writer was the Reverend Canon Samuel A. Barnett, then Vicar of St. Jude's Church, Whitechapel, in East London, and the settlement was Toynbee Hall. Mrs. Barnett has recently published an interesting account of the steps that led to the realization of the settlement idea. She describes the lack of knowledge of the poor on the part of earnest, thinking men, when she and her husband took up their work at St. Jude's, and tells of the visits they made to Oxford from time to time to talk to little groups of cultivated, serious young college men to get them to care about the poor and their problems. Some of these men came to Whitechapel for a visit, to see for themselves the conditions of poverty, and occasionally some would take lodgings in East London, when they left the university to begin their life- work. In this way a connection was established between Whitechapel and the university, and discerning spirits were able to see that each side had contributions of value to make to the other. It was not strange that when Mr. Barnett was asked to give advice to some men at St. John's College, Cambridge, who were desirous of doing something for the poor, and were not quite prepared to start a college mission, he should have suggested that "men might hire a house, where they could come for short or long periods, and, living in an industrial quarter, learn to 'sup sorrow with the poor.'" This suggestion was made in the letter to whic...<

ISBN: 9780217800273

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… Meer...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 4; Original Publisher: Scholars Press; Publication The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 4; Original Publisher: Scholars Press; Publication date: 1911; Subjects: Theology; Religion / General; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic; Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / Theology; Books, , Harvard-Theological-Review~~Harvard-Divinity-School, 999999999, The Harvard Theological Review (Volume 4), Harvard Divinity School, 0217800270, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 0217800270

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ISBN: 0217800270

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