A plea for the church as a means of economic and social betterment. The “messages” aim to bring the workingmen and the church into closer relation by solving through brotherly love the economic and social problems which are in reality moral and religious questions.
“Mr. Stelzle delivers this message in a very pleasing manner. His language is simple; his style spirited. He deals with familiar things in a familiar way. The fatal error of the book is just in this air of reality and sanity. It imparts this air to a statement and solution of the problem altogether too simple.” R. F. Hoxie.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 181. Mr. ’07. 310w. |
“Their outstanding characteristics are sound sense, a broad humanity, and insistence on personal loyalty to Christ.”
| + + | Outlook. 83: 911. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w. |
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Essays of Sir Leslie Stephen, literary and critical. Authorized American ed. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.
v. 6. English literature and society in the eighteenth century.
The sixth volume in this series includes the Ford lectures for 1903, which deal more with the literature of the period than with society. “Society is only dealt with in just so far as the poetic and prose writers expressed it, or in so far as it affected them.” (N. Y. Times).