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...nobler things, and finally, when we have come to deserve God, He will come to us. We should find some task which human powers have failed to do, and which can only be done by divine power, and then by setting to work upon it we shall receive help from...
Problems of charity belong to large cities. In small towns cases of want are helped by the neighbors because all the people know each other. As the town grows into a large city people are no longer neighbors to each other; poverty, want and crime segregate to the lower and more unhealthy portions of the city and it becomes necessary in order to relieve distress to establish relief societies. These societies simply give alms to the people who apply for them and concern themselves very little in any other means of helping the poor. In the last report...
...chorus of students which was invited to help lead the singing in the Grand Opera House at the first two of the eight or ten religious meetings to be held there Sunday evenings, was found to be of great assistance. Rev. Frederick Palmer who has the personal direction of these meetings, and Rev. Frederick B. Allen, superintendent of the Boston Episcopal City Mission, have again requested that the students continue their help. The meetings are very similar to the Globe theatre services of two years ago, and the managers should have the hearty support of the college in their endeavor...
...have the meeting this year in Cambridge. Although there is now no really organized missionary work being done here at Harvard, there are a great many men who are independently working in this vicinity, and to those men especially, the public meetings of the convention will be a help and encouragement. The names of the speakers alone are enough to guarantee interest to others. At the private afternoon meetings of the delegates a number of interesting essays will be read. All students who may desire to be present will be welcomed. At the public services in St. John's chapel...
...uppers, deprived of a superintendent and of old employees at one swoop, with nothing to keep it running but its routine and the organization Mr. Waterman had worked out for it in the past. And I would not have your readers forget that the directors could not help all this; and that Mr. Waterman, as business men and business methods go, is not open to severe censure. Perhaps those clerks would have gone to Mr. Waterman's even it the directors had cut loose from Mr. Waterman entirely and offered higher wages all around. We outsiders do not know...