Annual Report Of The Executive Committee Of The Benevolent Fraternity Of Churches

Excerpt from Sixty-Seventh Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches in the City of Boston: With the Reports of the Ministers-at-Large It is a question that was raised by Dr. Joseph Tuckerman when he began the work of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. It was answered by him in an earnest broad man ner. If he had settled it differently, he would have never laid the foundations of our career as a ministry-at-large, because he would not have had the heart to enter on the difficult pathway. We refer to the attitude anyone takes toward city life. Dr. Tuckerman treated this subject in a book which has been out of print for many years. The view of our great philanthropist is expressed in these words: Vicious as cities may be, and are, I yet believe that they are intended to be instruments of the highest moral ends of God with respect to man in this world. In other words, Dr. Tuckerman did not regard the dense life of a city as an evil which was to be mitigated as far as possible by treatment. Rather did he see in such communi ties wonderful opportunities for the development of character, and even the moral dangers, so numerous under those circum stances, appeared to him as challenges for the best efforts of mankind to mutual helpfulness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.