Social Settlements

The work of social settlements, as carried on in Chicago, was preseuted to Ann Arbor audiences last unday, by Trof. Graham Taylor of Chicago. Mr. Taylor has established his home in one of the working districts of Chicago, jtot the slums, as so many imagine, where only the idle, the vicious and the transients live; but among men of settled residence who work from week to week in the great facto lies and shops of Chicago. The idea of coming down to patronize and preach to thein would not have been tolerated, so he and his family simply took up their home there, and begun to live among and get acquainted with them. Rooms were opened for the f ree discussion of all questions, and no distinction wás made on account of race, color or creed. Mr. I aylor arraigns, not christianity, but the world's application of it, and the lack of honest sympathy the church seems to have for the poor man. and the unwillingness to get down and fight with him. So this work has been going on in the "Chicago Commons," for about two years and not till within a montli did they make any effort to hold a religious meeting. Mr. Taylor says that in the two years those rooms have been open only two men has he ever heard speak derisively of Jesus Christ, and they were silenced at once by the men aroundthem; but in the same time he has not heard even two men speak in praise of the church of today. He believes that the time must come when the pulpit must take firm hold of all the great questions of the day, and put the church unequivocallyon record, or shewill fail ingetting hold of the great masses of the people.