The Church and Society

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Macmillan, 1912 - 225 sider
 

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Side 165 - should stand : For equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life; For the right of all men to the opportunity for self-maintenance, a right ever to be wisely and strongly safeguarded against encroachments of every kind; For the right of workers to some protection
Side 60 - social center has accomplished what I had regarded as impossible. I have been here nine years, and during that time there has always been a gang of toughs around these corners, which has been a continual nuisance. This winter the gang
Side 58 - You in Rochester are meeting one of the great tests of our democratic life. You are proving that the virtues of humanity far exceed in force the vices of humanity. You are showing that it is health that is contagious and that in a prosperous community the most intelligent of the citizens
Side 142 - Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons.
Side 64 - the best, necessarily conditioned and expressed without arbitrariness in the circumstances. The calm recognition, the clear knowledge, and the serene, cheerful obedience to the rule of this third something is the particular feature that should be constantly
Side 68 - Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.
Side 58 - expression of individuality, bringing home the information and the stores of knowledge that are otherwise inaccessible to many who are burdened with the toils of the day. It is in the social centers of Rochester that I should look for an answer to the question whether in a great democratic community you are realizing the purposes of Society.
Side 6 - they had a common humanity, a common Father in Heaven, they taught them also to profit by one another's wisdom, instead of remaining in isolated ignorance. They, too, were the great witnesses against the feudal caste. With them was neither highborn nor low-born, rich nor poor.
Side 222 - We believe that a community as well as an individual should have an ideal and that its citizens, by continued and united action, should resolutely work for the realization of that ideal. We seek a community in which nothing shall hurt or destroy but in which everything shall bless and build up.
Side 221 - by the churches, was unique in conception and expression. It was interdenominational, nonsectarian and inclusive of all the elements in the community. It concerned itself with every phase of community life. The purpose of this campaign was to "help build a city in which nothing shall hurt or destroy, but in which everything shall bless and build up.

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