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. “Something must be done” is the comment which follows the tale of how the poor live. Those who make the comment have, however, their business--their pieces of ground to see, their oxen to prove, their wives to consider, and so there is among them a general agreement that the “Something” must be done by Law or by Societies. “What can I do?” is a more healthy comment, and it is a sign of the times that this question is being widely asked, and by none more eagerly than by members of the Universities. Undergraduates and graduates, long before the late outcry, had become conscious that social conditions were not right, and that they themselves were called to do something. It is nine years since four or five Oxford undergraduates chose to spend part of their vacation in East London, working as Charity Organization Agents, becoming members of clubs, and teaching in classes or schools. It is long since a well-known Oxford man said, “The great work of our time is to connect centres of learning with centres of industry”. Freshmen have become fellows, since the Master of Balliol recommended his hearers, at a small meeting in the College Hall, to “find their friends among the poor”.