Reconstruction II
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article460
- Author
- Michell, Humfrey, 1883-1970
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Bulletin [Council for Social Service]
- Date
- 1918 June
- Author
- Michell, Humfrey, 1883-1970
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1918 June
- Issue
- 13
- Page
- 1-16 p.
- Notes
- Contents: Publications of the Council for Social Service of the Church of England in Canada -- Reconstruction II / [H. Michell].
- "To the discerning there is probably no question which gives rise to greater anxiety than the fear, arising practically to a certainty, that we shall be faced with a serious moral and spiritual reaction [after World War I ends]; in other words we shall be in for a very bad `slump' in high ideals, an expression which makes up in directness what it lacks in elegance (p. 3)".
- "We are slowly, but only very slowly, and with infinite difficulty beginning to see that the forward movement of the future in all national and international polity must be preventive and not curative. Disease, poverty, misery, crime, must all be prevented. .... We have built hospitals enough in all conscience, but have we determinedly grappled with the causes that make people sick ? .... We must be seized with that divine discontent that will not let us rest while there are things to be done which cry out for us to set our hands to them, while there are wrongs to be righted that demand our courage to grapple with them, while there are crooked paths to be made straight, and captives to me set free. ..... But at this point we arrive at a very serious consideration. The pace of advancement, the desire for iconoclasm, the fury for reconstruction after the war is going to be very great. There will be a furious battle fought between extreme radicalism on the one side and extreme reaction on the other. To which party will the Church belong ? (pp. 11-13)". "It will be in these ways that the Church will find her great and God-inspired task for the future. She must stand between the combatants, the reactionaries and the radicals, and by the sweet reasonableness of her teaching show the way to a fuller realization of that righteousness which exalteth a nation" (p. 15).
- Contents divided into sub-sections: Problems of Reconstruction: 4. Prohibition -- How To Meet Reaction -- Problems of Reconstruction: 5. Education -- Problems of Reconstruction: 6. Control of Disease -- The Legislation of the Future -- The New Outlook.
- Bulletin appears to have been written by the Editor "H. Michell" based upon a footnote on page 7 which begins "Perhaps I may be forgiven for citing a personal instance" and which is signed "H.M."
- Subjects
- Canada - Social conditions - 1918-1930
- World War, 1914-1918 - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church and social problems - Anglican Church of Canada
- Prohibition - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Liquor laws - Canada
- Alcohol - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Education - Canada
- Education - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Religion in the public schools - Anglican Church of Canada
- Public health - Canada
- Public health - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Location
- General Synod Archives