Word: london
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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...
...became curate at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury in 1884, and subsequently private chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfiels, head of Oxford House, Benthal Green, rector of Benthal Green, rural dean of Spitalfields, cannot of St. Paul's Cathedral, Bishop of Stepney, and in 1901 Bishop of London. It is as Bishop of Stepney, in the east part of London, that the bishop is best known to the London poor. He had been known primarily as a rough and ready member of the Church, ever willing to mingle with the poorest of the slums, without family influence at court, and accustomed...
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...