Article September 21, 1907 Issue

Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York delivered an...

New York Times

[From the New York Times]

Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York delivered an address on "The Relation of the Church to Social Unrest" at the Chautauqua [N. Y.] Assembly to-day [Aug. 2]. He said in part,—

There is no more righteous arraignment of the Church of our time than its indifference to the the social conditions of the classes made up of less favored men and women down in the gutter. The Church has justly been severely criticised for its lack of interest in the mental, moral, and physical upbuilding of the masses. The task of the Church is to translate the mind of Christ, first by sympathy, then by painstaking curiosity. This sympathetic curiosity should lead us to know something of that strata of life below that in which we are wont to move. Such sympathetic curiosity will sooner or later lead to the only hope of the social unrest of our time, and that is personal service.

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