Social Settlements Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... chiefly re ligious results. Relzgion in and of itself, as illustrated in the various eomnzunions, will never give the social unit, in any eonznzunity, whie/i is now the most essential element in the change of social conditzons. (PRESIDENT W. T. TUCKER.) THE CREED on MANSFIELD HoUsE.--Note how clear, frank, outspoken it is: Mansfield House is a University Settlement, founded for practical helpfulness, in the spirit of Jesus Christ, in all that affects human life. We war, in the Master s name, against all evil--selfishness, injustice, vice, disease, starvation, ignorance, ugliness and squalor; and seek to build up God s kingdom in brotherhood, righteousness, purity, health, truth and beauty. BERMONDSEY SETTLEMENT has formulated its relation to religion in these words: The whole is dominated and held together by a supreme spiritual concern to minister in the Spirit of Christ to the manifold wants of human nature, and thus to set forth, as we see it, the Divine power and the breadth of sympathy to be found in Christ. For us the work of evangelization is the highest and noblest; but so great is it that it includes all the faculties, relationships, and conditions of human life. Any advance of the Kingdom of God must fulfil itself in all these. And thus we must soon be seeking to build, by our Master s help, an earthly city of God in which regenerated individuals may walk. The law of Christian service will make all gifts with which men are endowed, contribute to that end, and it is our business to try to lay hold of them for it. The religious and missionary purpose of the Settlement has been expressed by the first Warden, Rev. S. A. Barnett (Practicable Socialism, p. 166): It is an...