Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, spoke in Sanders Theatre last evening before a large audience on "Some Problems of Great Cities." President Eliot introduced him as a holder of one of the most venerable and oldest ecclesiastical offices in the world, a social worker of great success, and a sympathizer with all classes and conditions...
...first fearful problems that we have to meet, said Bishop Ingram, is the great increase in the population of London, an increase which amounts to at least 100,000 every year. In addition, all our little country villages are being swallowed up year after year and others are growing every day. Another problem is the appalling overcrowding of London which we already have. The mortality is terrible, especially among children, of whom 52 out of every thousand die yearly, whereas the ordinary rate is not more than 18. At least half of these deaths are due to preventable diseases...
...part that you must play, continued the Bishop, is to send us good men ordained as ministers. No University that is not sending its quota of men to the ministry is doing its duty. Besides this you can do a great deal by your life here. Nothing does more harm to our cause when we are struggling against immorality than to see in a University, the centre of culture, any laxation on this point. Unless you Harvard men are absolutely sound on the question of morality and drink, you are undermining our work and are doing the world more harm...
...Bishop Ingram's greatest work has been among the poor of London. While cannot of St. Paul's he preached his famous series of sermons of "Men who Crucify Christ," in which he mercilessly arranged the large property owners living in the best quarters of London who were growing rich from the exorbitant rents of their tenements in the slums. When he became Bishop of London he used his greater influence constantly in the interests of the poor, realizing that the segregation of the rich is one of the greatest evils of society. While he was at Oxford, where...
...LECTURE. "Some Problems of Great Cities." Rt. Rev. A. F. Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Sanders Theatre...