Now let us bring "within the sweep of this wholesome law our social life out here. There are various associations in this city who live in the strength of this law, dozens of societies for promoting the common welfare in the higher things of life: Chief among them by length of ancestry, by record of achievement and by_nobility of aim are the churches whith accept this great law in the name of Him Who renounced His heavenly glory and came to serve His fellows that they might have life abundantly. We meet in His name to remind ourselves of that social obligation which is His commission, and to catch the inspiration for fulfilling it, lest we should slip into that life of self-pleasing which is the denial of Jesus Christ.
But now consider how few men and women are taking their share and lending a hand. The bulk of the privileged people in Shanghai have no interest in this larger out-Jock at all.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.