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Rh ." He sought to "cheat the prison and house of correction out of as many candidates as possible." These ends he sought to accomplish by spiritual means. "All our chains are within.' As parents do not need to keep their children in with locks and bolts, so we require no such helps. It is love, love born of faith, which overcomes." Music was cultivated. Sunday schools were formed for apprentices; spinning, sewing and knitting were taught; and steady labor was employed as a means of development and reformation. Such lives were expressions of the ideals and indications of the methods which were, at a later time, taken up into the "Inner Mission." But it required many years, many contests of discussion, and the devotion of many lives to awaken the evangelical people of Germany to their duty and to organize social movements of national importance and extent.

In subsequent numbers of the Journal the later phases of historical development of the Inner Mission will be treated. It is hoped that materials for a judgment in respect to the possibilities of cooperation in social service in American church life may thus be presented.