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>uld not be found sufficient for his gentler brother :

to hi> that liis work i> hard and his food poorly cooked,


 * lt will l)i- a subnormal life-, (iiven a human

i li 5 force, and amon^ his first expressions will be

a denial. :->es the family alone supply this want.

torv dot - 'plv a single illustration of the self-sufficiency

of the family. Tlu social activity reaches beyond the immediate tie to the brother who is a brother only by courtesy. Social need

grows the family and creates its own larger society, and this is what mv workiiiLrman must do. He does not desert his family. He is not disloval to them in ^vking it, but he must find a larger circle in which to move. He must himself articulate in a larger life, and where shall he find it ':

Does not the church offer what he seeks? In the first place four churches are somewhat inadequate to the needs of a popu- lation of 48.000, and vet if all places of worship in the ward, both Jewish and Gentile, be counted, four will be the net result. It is conceived that their is a difference between religious and social need a difference between the organs of religious and il expression. The church is primarily devoted to worship. We seek sociality* and even a reconstructed church open seven davs and nights in the week might fail to recognize our want. Indeed it may be questioned whether the church is called upon to note it. With us it does not, and our question remains unan- ered.

But someone mav sav : "Are there not clubs where he can NO. and if there were they would offer conventions instead of freedom ; must offer conventions of order of business, officers, etc., becau-r of the inherent nature of clubs. The democratic ele- ment which is most essential the absolute freedom to come and go and do as one pleases cannot be incorporated into a club. But this reservation must be made, that in so far as the club expresses his vital interests, in the same measure does it become the institution which we seek The trade union answers to this description. It is a much higher form of social expression than the saloon, and anioiiL: its members it has supplanted the saloon