Excerpt from The Church and Social Service: Being the Report of a Committee Appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury
Your Grace,
1. We have held twelve meetings, and have heard verbal evidence from witnesses representing different aspects of social service. We have considered written statements kindly furnished to us by men and women of proved experience both in Church and State; and have also examined certain documents and memoranda which we felt would be useful in helping us to make the inquiry upon which we have entered at your request.
2. We could, without doubt, obtain further information upon the whole subject. But we believe it to be essential that we should offer you a Report as early as possibly, in view of the urgent need of practical action, and of the reconstruction of our whole social life which is now in progress.
3. The terms of reference which you gave us were as follows:
"To consider and report upon the ways in which Clergy, Churchworkers and Churchpeople generally can best co-operate with the State in all matters concerning the social life of the community."
4. We shall, in the course of our Report, have certain recommendations to make with regard to each of the three classes indicated in these terms of reference. But we think it important that at the very outset of our work we should explain the general attitude from which we approach the subject as a whole.
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