What May the Social Worker Expect of the Church

The growing emphasis on social work by technically trained workers raises the question as to the relationship between the task of the church and the task of social agencies. The church is beginning to take so lively an interest in social problems that the possibility of rivalry exists. The church is less well equipped for specialized social work than are social agencies. But Christianity engenders an idealism and inculcates the practice of good will so that it has in the past carried humanity across social crises. The modern church must demand of its ministry an intelligent appreciation of social problems and a willingness to co-operate with social agencies, but its peculiar task is to create the spirit of good-will and to inspire men of good-will to heroic service in the social relations of human life

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