The Salvage of Destitution
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...The Fallacy of Credit Power...
...Whatever distorts that personality, what- "For these reasons we must, speaking for abiding ever deprives it of a normal chance to create its own Christian principles, advocate the independence of satisfying image of the world, is negative and harm- social welfare effort...
...and no comment we could offer on it This service can no longer be merely individual...
...Alphonse Lugan 67 The Play R. Dana Skinner 77 At the Wedding (verse) Paul Sandoz 69 Books George N. Shuster, Our Lady of the Cenacle Helen Walker 70 Martyn Hemphill, Thomas Walsh, T. C. 78 Three Irish Places Padraic Colum 72 The Quiet Corner 83 THE SALVAGE OF DESTITUTION S INCE the war brought its tremendous revelation proved its worth, there is no need of laudatory mnof crowds, we have also arrived at a clearer vision phasis upon the campaign for funds now being planne' of the individual lost in the crowd...
...Time stood it, as we read of them in the history of the was when under the spelt of "progress" we believed Apostles...
...There can never be, form of `welfare' would obviously not fulfil the Divine however, any honest doubt of the burden to be borne commandment of love...
...up earnestly what used to be a kind of educational Where, for instance, is our understanding for the evil forlorn hope...
...The matter has recently been threshed out Christian charity will give its all to succor and heal...
...It is natural and imperative, also, that of industrial maladjustment-the evil, ingrained in our the , Catholic Church, whose mission has been identi- shifting national existence, of men and women who fied so largely with urban districts, should try to put drift headlong into employment for which they are its own corps of workers into the social field...
...and Saint Paul speaks of athemas...
...These sometimes ing,' giving over the first service to some who had seem dangerous meddlers, worthy even of official an- been especially appointed...
...And wholly unsuited and the drudgery of which unnerves so during the past month a very special effort has them...
...Because this school disintegrates into human particles, and when the fracis directly under episcopal care, and because it has tionizing is carried sufficiently far thousands of men S8 THE COMMONWEAL May z6, 1926 and women are left to smother their instincts under poor as a lever for pushing them into a confession...
...But in spreading the faith they used growth toward perfection is possible only as far as `words and signs,' not alms...
...And yet there are many less glamorous human wastage...
...It is a union that can most abundant when they are reaped by charity...
...Indeed they felt that the inherited psycho-physical bow can be drawn, and this growth was less their own work than it was the that persistent failure to draw it will mean, in the achievement of the Lord...
...The great agen- This campaign will succeed...
...And that is one reason why-though it is smaller scale it may likewise come under the jurisdiconly one reason--the ministry of the Church is a guar- tion of the pastor...
...Karl Neundorfer, contributed to a recent issue intricately coordinated mechanisms of industrial of Hochland: "The Church and organized charity society makes the study of general conditions imperacertainly belong together, but the union between them tive...
...been proclaimed by the philosophia perennis...
...welfare work was therefore, in its disinterestedness, Much that passes for immorality and crime is simply the perfect reflection of the spirit of Christ...
...must be consigned to a separate agency within the The greatest servant of personality is, of course, faith, Church...
...Volume IV New York, Wednesday, May 26, 1926 Number 3 CONTENTS The Salvage of Destitution 57 This Maytime (verse) Jessica Powers 73 Week by Week 59 The Mystery of Mexico The Missionary and Man 62 William Franklin Sands 74 Logical Mexico 63 Cantiga in Praise of Saint Mary (verse...
...It Catholic School of Social Service...
...But in so far as especial forms antee of social welfare...
...But how- giving aid.' " ever deeply sentiment may embroil the question, there It seems indubitable that in the future, whenever can be no doubt that the social worker has a place the necessity for service such as that which was renof his or her own inside the operative body of the dered to the man who fell among robbers reappears, Church...
...that pall which the old Greek sage offered only to "True welfare work will be the spontaneous exbeasts and the gpds-the pall of solitude...
...The image of pressed, above all, by the present extensive effort to distress, once seen, rouses the American heart to spontrain competent persons for the study and relief of taneous pity...
...No people social welfare is simply one result of our awakening is more generous than ours in supporting those works to the inchoate and starveling world in which we of charity which Lincoln summed up in the dose of move...
...missionary success, and sometimes also those agents yet is the meaning of life itself no other than freewho, professionally considered, are inefficient...
...Already the Apostles separated `the phrased ambitions of the trim young women secured preparation of the tables' from `prayer and preachto establish a settlement or a clinic...
...The carrying-out of this effort ful, is criminal when its causes are not cataclysmic...
...In be misunderstood and wrongly used...
...But the fruits of such study will continue to be imposes definite distinctions...
...Life," porting only those among whom one expects to attain as Carlyle said, "is compassed round with necessity...
...We And so the comparatively vast attention now given to can all understand the plight of misery...
...and in open contradiction of the opinof Christian social principles is the sacredness of per- ions of His disciples He commanded that good be sonality," rightly says the Anglican Bishop of Man- done even to those not among His followers...
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...cies of service which cared for young men suddenly But the tasks which beckon to social workers, and cut adrift from normal living revealed the sharp, the grim evils indifference suffers to run riot in the abiding need for human reclamation of many sorts...
...of service in the name of religion develop, the proObviously, it is not immediately easy to affiliate the gressive self-government of the social worker is detrained social worker with this ministry...
...chester...
...Much of degradation is imposed by several places He ordained charity for its own sake, ruthless environment...
...pression of the religious life of the Church...
...This is fully in accord with the practice of and charitable people resent, in fact, the scientifically- the early Church...
...thus have we a warfare...
...First sionary result...
...For in degradation...
...Of course they were missionaries and Saint mankind capable of transmutation into a type more Luke happily announced the growth of the communion resplendent than Apollo...
...Merely to sub- a social contingency like the recent British industrial ordinate social welfare-work to the missionary activi- strike, for instance, there may be questions of right and ties of the Church might well result in a habit of sup- wrong, considerations of relative expediency...
...This dom...
...in Germany...
...City life is innately centrifugal...
...A mission would cease to be by charity, which is both the greatest glory of the truly Christian the moment it used the plight of the soul and the most necessary traffic law of the state...
...Wherever the work is done on a blessed...
...but now the old truth that of the faithful...
...his second inaugural: we aid the widow and the Readers of such books as Elizabeth Macadam's orphan, we bind up the nation's wounds, we forget The Equipment of the Social Worker will be im- the malice that festered in our souls...
...community are still remote from the public mind...
...These facts have long since without regard for the recipients or the possible mis...
...It was because they beend, decay of the fibre and a permanent slackening, is lieved that they could not help being charitable...
...The would have the judicious appeal of these paragraphs plain fact that we live dependent upon the taut and by Dr...
...Their asserted by the competent masters of therapeutics...
...Many good sirable...
...A unit of action so traditional and well the `body of Christ' as divided into many organs, established as the parish will not always brook what among which there are some for `healing the sick and appears to be a decentralization of energy...
...Naturally enough, it will• be subject to the because only this reveals the fundamental, life-giving episcopacy as are all other religious endeavors, besociety of the world...
...Universities and colleges have taken pageants of destitution which pass almost unseen...
...Henry Somerville 65 Communications Translated by Thomas Walsh 75 75 The Case Against Maurras...
...This is Modern medicine knows the price which society dearly the way in which the early Christians underpays for the spiritual dessicatioe of its members...
...There is an immense, tender, cause the bishop is not merely a priest and teacher inimitable friendliness in the communion of the but also a father...
...Nor are we more than partially aware of been made to solidify and enlarge the greatest Catho- the immense toll gathered by that almost unrealizable lic undertaking of this character to date-the National thing, loneliness...
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