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Title: Community programs for cooperating churches; a manual of principles and methods
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Guild, Roy Bergen, 1872- ed
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Publisher: New York, Association press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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evelop within the field of moral and spiritualvalues an agency that parallels the chambers of com-merce in the fields of industry, business, and finance, orthe allied councils of social and benevolent agencies nowbeing developed so rapidly in many of the larger townsand cities. Such an organization has force:— a. When in its organization and management there isdirect and accredited representation by all the constitu-ent bodies, b. When it expresses in thought and action the willof the entire group. The only effective democratic principle is the devel-opment of common thought and common ideals. Thereis a fallacy in majority action as well as in mob rule.Centralized agencies representing large, self-conscious,and forceful units can only gain the confidence of thecommunity and really exercise effective social controlwhen they actually speak the common mind and act forthe entire group. As society becomes increasingly complex and as theforces of evil become more highly organized and cen-
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PRINCIPLES AND METHODS 9 tralized, the churches, as the guarantors of the worldsmoral and spiritual values, must learn how to expressthemselves in thought and action in a comparable manner. III. The Basis of Representation Interchurch work is possible and necessary in anycommunity where there are two or more churches. Theunit may be the churches of the open country centeringabout a particular trading center, or it may easily beextended into the township, the county, several townsand cities, the great metropolitan areas, and the state.Quoting from the Pittsburgh Conference Report, Theword church is used in many senses. Ecclesiasticallyit may mean a local congregation, or the whole of a com-munion. Polities differ; some making the congregation,some the whole communion, the source of ecclesiasticalauthority. But all recognize that such authority, eitheroriginal or derived, and to some degree, is vested in bothlocal and national bodies and in the judicatories betweenthem. Hence there is ncommunityprogram01guil

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