The Clergy and the Press.
If the clergy knew more of the people’s pleasures they would yearn more over their erring flocks and talk more on present-day subjects. Take horse-racing for instance, who can defend it? Who can find one good result of it, and its incalculable evils of betting, lying, cheating, drinking? Yet the clergy are strangely loth to condemn it! Is it because King Edward VII (God bless him for his love of peace) encourages the Turf? The King has again and again shown his care for his people’s good, and maybe he would modify his actions—and the world would follow his lead—if the Church would speak out and condemn this baneful national pleasure.
It is not for me to preach to the clergy, but they have so often preached to me to my edification, that I would in gratitude give them in return an exhortation; and so I beg you good men to give more thought to the people’s pleasures; and then give guidance from the Pulpit and the Press concerning them.
Henrietta O. Barnett.
SECTION III.
SETTLEMENTS.
[Settlements of University Men in Great Towns]—[Twenty-one Years of University Settlements]—[The Beginning of Toynbee Hall].
SETTLEMENTS OF UNIVERSITY MEN IN GREAT TOWNS.[[1]]
By Canon Barnett.
[1] A paper read at a meeting in the rooms of Mr. Sidney Ball at St. John’s College, Oxford, November, 1883.