Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...movement in these words: "We aim simply at giving a definite amount of convenience for a definite annual sum; we don't dream of manufacturing sociability; but we believe that if eight hundred or more men find a University club worth ten dollars a year to them, its social influence will work unconsciously-as it should...
Dean Hodges addressed the St. Paul's Society last evening upon the Church Social Union. The American Church Social Union, he said, is the child of the English Christian Social Union which was started at Oxford in 1890 by Professor Westcott, now Bishop of Durham, Scott Holland, Canon of Saint Paul's Cathedral, Charles Gore, and M. A. Carter of Pusey House, Oxford. The English Union now has a membership of 5000, mostly in the universities...
...present organization in America was started in 1891, under the direction of Bishop Huntington, Bishop Potter, and other prominent churchmen. Its purpose is to awaken the minds of all Christians, beginning with the members of the Episcopal Church, to the social problems of the present day and to the fact that their solution is to be found in the earnest study of present conditions viewed in the light of Christ's teaching. In the problems which confront the student the members of the Union are bound to no principles but those of the Christian law. They are exhorted to study...
...PAUL'S SOCIETY.- Dean Hodges will address the St. Paul's Society on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 7 p. m., in 17 Grays. Dean Hodges is secretary of the Church Social Union, and is to speak to the society on the aims and purposes of this Union. All members of the University are invited...
...same reason applies to ecclesiastical unity and its impossibility. The various divisions of the church express and satisfy the religious differences of men. The different sects are, however, slowly changing and approaching each other. All denominations are in a sense transient, reflecting as they do the necessities of the social mind and life, and they change with time. The extreme peculiarities are first modified, and thus it is that the sects are drawing closer. There is, however, no type now existing of the universal church of the future. Some things will be taken from every church, but not the whole...