Poor -- New York (State) -- New York; Social settlements
The city is what the good, active people of the city want it to be--no
better, no worse. The condition of the most uncared-for section gives the
church's answer to the question, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The mark of
Cain may not be visible, but every child who goes out of life because its
right to light, air, sunshine has not been protected is a charge against
the Church. Every boy and girl whose life record is shadowed, blackened
because their right to education, to training, to freedom to develop
physically, mentally, morally, spiritually was denied them through
political indifference, are the evidences of the failure of the churches to
live up to the light which Christ left to their keeping. His followers do
not march through the cities of the poor, an army.
When Christ said, "The second is like unto it, love thy neighbor as
thyself," He did not not mean the ethical conception for which the Church
has stood, but the broad, Christ-like conception of brotherhood which would
protect "thy neighbor" from the evils of his own ignorance and weakness;
that would use one's best strength in his interest seven days in the week.
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