Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-11

tress ii is necessary to cooperate with
the Organizing Charity. Charity OrganiZa-
ton Society or Associated Charities. as 1t
Is vaTiOusly called in different cries
Through this agency emergency distress
is relieved at once and larger plans for
help are developed in which those who re-
ferred the applicant to the society are
asked to bear. and usually will bear.
definite part.
Such society said Miss Richmond.
referring TO the Associated Charities.
cannot prosper without a truly neishbor-
ly spirit among both its paid and yolun-
teer workers. The older type of charity
agent sat a a desk and divided the poor
into the worthy and unworthy, g-v'ns
the former small grocery orders and send
ing the latter about their business. Inc
new type OF worker. whether serving as a
church or charity visitor is sympathetic :.
ready and willing to work hard with the
So-called undeServins: resourceful IN ways
where material relief alone is not enough;
knowing like book the district in which
he or she works--its schools. its doc ors
its clergymen. its industrial opportunities.
its charitable people-and quick to use all
of these in giving poor people lift up
ward"
In the chapter dealing with The In
valid Miss Richmond says: Only those
who have been brought to very close quar-
| ,ers with distress realize how large a part
is played by disease in the tragedy of the
poor Practical suggestions for early
medical attention to the symptoms Of i'll
ness and for adequate curative treatment
at hospitals. dispensarieS and country
homes are submitted by the writer. ne
growing crusade against tuberculosis Is
discussed and its practical lessons. apple
able TO all citizens everywhere. are suS-
gested.
The chapter discussing The Contribu-
tor makes some very practical. useful
suggestions TO resourceful people who are
called upon for contributions to charita-
BILE work. Among the questions which the
author SAYS a subscriber should determine
before making his contributions are the
following: rs this charity genuine or
fraudulent? Does it meet real need in
the community? Is ii well managed?
Does it employ approved methods? Does
it account properly for all income and
expenditure? >" 1t is probable that if such
tests were applied to all charities asking
contributions a good many Impractical
or even injurious charities would be al
lowed to disappear, while those which are
really mertorious would be adequately
sustained Contributors would also find
that their contributions We're more effect
i've and much more satisfactory to the
donors.
The final chapter deals with The
Church Member The church supplies
the motive: charity supplies the method"
says Miss Richmond. Charity is forever
exploring. inausuratinS and then relin-
gushing to other agencies the many So
this way the crusade against tuberculosis
and for better housing conditions has
been developed In the same way the
church has developed and then rein
quished the activities represented by mod
ern medicine. statecraft and education
In charity and in these other activities
which the church has relnquished there is
need for spiritual power. for the larger
social and spiritual outlook which ra
Igion and the church should supply. For
ms
bers should cooperate on the neutral
| ground Of social work. This from the
side of the church. says Miss Richmond.
but the social work itself needs that
spiritual quality which devoted church
members and they alone can bring into
! II.
MANS DAY. BY Philip Mauro. coun-
sellor-atlaw. author of The World
and Its God. New York: GOSPEL
Publishing House.
| Mr. Philip Mauro, who is we'll known in
the local legal world. besides being the
author OF the volume just announced has
written The World and Its Cod which
was so favorably received in England
where it was first published as to have
! reached the thirty-third thousand in seven
months
| Mr. Mauro expresses his intention and
| hope in the present volume in his preface
! III WHICH lie says
"Among-~the strong decisions of these
| times there is none stronger than that
| Mans Day is a day of glorious achieve
ment. successive triuHphs and cont :nuous
| progress; and that by the forces operat-
! ing IN il mankind is eventually to be
brought 10 A condition of universal
! blessedness and contentment. The writer
! knows full well that those who are under
! the influence of this delusiOn cannot be
| freed from il by arguments however
| co2ent. or by stat sites showing the an
| palling increase of crime. accidents sui
| cides ard insanity. or by the ouen and
| fragrant manifestations of corruption
lawlessness and profligacy. To all these
appeals they resolutely close their ears
and eyes. not willing to recognize the
! real drift and certain end of what is
called civilization
But far more potent than human ar
| guments and reasonings. and more power
| full than the evidence of the senses is
| the testimony of the word of God Faith
comes by hearing. and hearing by the
| word. There is yet a power in that
word before which the mightiest strong
holds must go down; and the reader of
| this volume is asked to listen, not to
| the opinions of man-however well
considered they might be. and however
| we'll qualified he might be to form them
| but TO what the word of God says con-
corning the real character of the age in
| which we are living. and concerning the
real nature of the forces that are op-
| Grating TO produce what is going on in
| the world.
1t seems TO the writer that the reason