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9 - Ten Thousand Compassions and Charities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2010

Ford K. Brown
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Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done tinder the sun, there is a public meeting. For the cure of every sorrow by which our land or our race can be visited, there are patrons, vice-presidents and secretaries. For the diffusion of every blessing of which mankind can partake in common, there is a committee. That confederacy which, when pent up within the narrow limits of Clapham, jocose men invidiously called a ‘Sect’, is now spreading through the habitable globe.

sir james stephen

What soldier ever serveth at his own charge? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?… Even so did the Lord ordain that they which proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

i corinthians

The dimensions of the Bible and Missionary Societies were not reached again by any religious or benevolent society of this age. But from beginning to end of it moral, religious, educational, charitable and benevolent institutions sprang up in an unheard-of way, many of them branching out through the provinces, all of them ‘useful’ in one degree or another and many spectacularly so. It seemed to some observers watching them with amusement or wonder, perhaps also uneasiness, that they left no field of social activity untouched. ‘This is the age of societies’, the young Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote in 1823.

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Fathers of the Victorians
The Age of Wilberforce
 , pp. 317 - 360
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1961

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