Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . , if it became a mis-sion, would at once alienate the majority of its neighbors, and thusdefeat its specific end; but in every case settlement workers are en-couraged to co-operate with local church work. The American set-tlement represents in most cases a friendly overture from ProtestantChristians to Catholic Christians or to a Jewish population, whichin many cases stands deeply in need of
Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . , if it became a mis-sion, would at once alienate the majority of its neighbors, and thusdefeat its specific end; but in every case settlement workers are en-couraged to co-operate with local church work. The American set-tlement represents in most cases a friendly overture from ProtestantChristians to Catholic Christians or to a Jewish population, whichin many cases stands deeply in need of Christian helpfulness freefrom impossible conditions. Every consideration of national andsocial welfare demands that unity of feeling should be created be-tween these separated and even hostile classes. The settlements arebeyond all peradventure making headway with this task. One of the incidental, yet highly important, outcomes of the?growth of the settlement movement is the fact that at these cen-tres men and women work together in a particularly normal way,?with fairness and freedom, on the Christian basis of capacity forservice as the basis for precedence, without regard to sex. The secret. FRANCIS E, CLARK, SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS. 441 of this is that the settlement is, in the first instance, simply an ex-tension of the home in its finest conception, and offers a field, there-fore, in which the trained and enlightened woman has an authoritywhich no one would think of questioning. In all of the settlementamen and women work together. Some have only men, or onlywomen, actually in residence. At others there is a group of menresidents and a group of women residents, living in different others still, especially where the tradition of co-education ob-tains, men and women residents live under the same roof. Within the past few weeks tMo interesting documents have ap-peared which give impressive exhibits of the spread and substantialgrowth of settlement work. A fourth ed
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