Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-18
SOCIAL SERVICE WORK.
NEEDS PRACTICAL MEN

MIR, Glenn said that social service
worl, ia attractiv. TO business men be
cause n Is practical. Good business
men are needed as trained officers in
the church army, hc said. for the solu-
ton Of the problems which confront
the church demand exercise OF tho
power and knowledge Of efficient bust
ness men. The need for their services.
he said, is religious and not merely
economic.
We must make appeal TO the work :
iugmcn." he continued. and 10 do this
We must show "a spirit OF sympathy and
understanding. We cannot depend
merely on preaching from the pulpit.
We should do more preaching on the
outside. Another factor needed for
success In our efforts is unity. All
III. churches ought TO 10 united and try
10 understand and help each other.
We should know about our own parish.
our own city and our own state. and
VIC ought TO he looking for opportunity.
That is why the surveys help SO much
they tell us what our own problems
are, so that we can know what we
must meet. We ought to have the con
Niction OF sin. We may say that we
observe the last half OF the ten com
mandments, hut We commit many sims
Of omission. ana We arc allowing 10
pass ~ the work We ought TO do. Let
us work together. and show that we
have seized our chances and that we
have labored each for the other, meas
uring results. not by the individual.
but by the community"
NUMBER OF COMMUNICATES
NOT A TRUE TEST
Row. Augustine Elmcndorf spoke on
THE Necessity and Work of the Social
Service Commission" saying that the
measure of Il man from the Christian
standpoint is the measure of his ser
vice.
If this be true Of the man" he
said. 1T must he also true of the
parish, for il is not the number OF
communicates which a church has tina {
counts, but the effect of the church OH
the community in which it stands; the
effect in the form and terms of service.
Should II not also be true of the do
ccse? We should not administer to
ourselves only. but to the community
as we'll Our love towards our neigh
bor is too often mere sentiment.
Religion has not yet solved the
problem of brotherhood in the New
World. \ neghbor has been defined
as one who serves US. and in former
days, when every man was served i'm
his own community and before ho
Travelled, when service was imm ediat c
and prescott. that might have been true
tut to-day we are served from Maine
and California. Service has so extended
That we nave lost the art of loving our
nciEhbors. They are SO far away that
they are intangible. But they render
MS service which is beyond price
we owe debt to those miners in the
West. debt that is beyond money
and we can never satisfy love by the
payment of money price. We cannot
discharge our debt to those who per-
form service for us underground by
settling merely a financial payment"
PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYED
is a RELIGIOUS PROnLE,,
Mr.. Elmendorf discussed the problem
OF the unemployed, saying that it is q
religious problem. for decent homes
cannot be had when the husbands and
fathers are without work. lie told OF
how the social-service commission i'm
New Jersey had started tho wheels for
II state employment bureau and of how
II had also caused the enactment of n
child-welfare law. which was put into
operation last July.
States" he said, ARE not only gov
erning, but lal-service agents as