Excerpt from Practicable Socialism: New Series

My husband urged that the reform Of the Church would tend to solve that problem. The Church by its history and organization has a power no other agency can wield. If more freedom could be given to its system Of government and services, if it could be made directly expressive Of the highest aspirations Of the people, it is difficult to exaggerate the effect it might have. In every parish a force would be brought to bear which might kindle thought, so that it would reach out to the highest Object; which might stir love, so that men would forget themselves in devotion to the whole; and which might create a hope wherein all would find rest. The first need Of the age is an increase of Spirit uality, and the means of Obtaining it is a Reformed Church.

The papers under Recreation might almost as well have been placed in the Education Section, so strongly did my husband feel that recreation should educate. Only a few months before his illness he wrote: The claim of educa tion is now primarily to fit a child to earn a living, and there fore he is taught to read and write and learn a trade. But if it were seen that it is equally important to fit a child to use well his leisure, many changes would be made. And such changes he argued would increase, not lessen, the joy of holidays, an Opinion which my experience as Chairwoman of the Country-side Committee Of the Children's Country Holiday Fund abundantly supports.

In the Section for Settlements and their work, only three papers will be found, for so much has been written and spoken of Toynbee Hall and kindred centres of usefulness.

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