president of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. He had already anticipated the need for these lectures, as he has anticipated so many other public needs. For a year he had collected information about what the churches are actually doing in all parts of the country to coöperate with government agencies in their dealings with the social problems that confront them. As junior warden of St. George's Church where, under the organizing genius of Rev. William S. Rainsford, D.D., very effective neighborhood work was undertaken years ago and has developed into a strong center of social influence; as chairman of the committee of arrangements for the Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church to be held in this city in 1913, and prominent and active as a layman in church work for a generation, Mr. Cutting's interest in the Church and understanding of its possibilities are well appreciated. On the civic and social side he has had an equally varied and valuable preparation as president of the New York Trade School; as former president of The Citizens' Union, in whose service he has been engaged in some of the really big civic and political struggles of Greater New York; and as founder of the Bureau of Municipal Research, whose aim is to make possible a more effective control of public affairs through the intelligent participation of citizens and organizations in the vital interests of the city. Thus peculiarly equipped by special interest and previous experience, Mr. Cutting has interpreted the meaning of the social awakening of the Church and pointed the way to increasing its interest and making it effective through closer contact with the greatest of all social agencies,— government. SAMUEL MCCUNE LINDSAY. NEW YORK, March, 1912. CHAPTER CONTENTS IV THE CHURCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH VI PUBLIC OPINION AND THE CHURCH |