Excerpt from The Church of Social Union
The Church Social Union is a body of Churchmen devoted to the study of social problems. Among the many guilds and brotherhoods of the Church it is peculiar in having no definite scheme of action. It believes that action is often untimely and wasteful through lack of knowledge, and that in the presence of new and strange conditions, time may be saved and power gained by a patient, cautious, thorough examination alike of social ills and of the remedies proposed to relieve them. Individually its members may entertain what theories they please and do what they list to put such theories into practice, but as a union they have no other aim than the knowledge which brings wisdom. And while this aim seems over-academic and vague, especially to us Americans whose quick thought jumps to instant act, and has scarcely any other way of proving its truth than by success of action, yet when we consider how likely such thinking is to be crude and such conduct rash, how difficult is the repair of a foolish deed once done, and how much influence the doer and his good intentions lose by the folly; above all, when we consider that the Church herself is represented by her priests and is charged with their blunders, and may be thus robbed of the confidence of men, which is her opportunity to help them with a sure and divine relief, - when we consider these things, the consecration of earnest minds to study may appear quite practical enough to commend itself even to our fidgety American habits, with their tiresome glorification of "hustle."
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