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Title: World friendship, inc
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Murray, John Lovell, 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York, Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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.A. points on the map tonine middle schools in the midst of which it is proposedto establish the vice center, tells the number of studentsthat would be in its sphere of influence, and indicates intowhat sections of the country contaminated morals wouldbe carried. A medical missionary gives startling figureson the spread of disease. An educator who has beenmeasuring the strength of the opposition and soundingout the probable attitude of legislators, editors, and otherpublic men reports for his sub-committee. Others takethe floor. It is an animated discussion, which issues inconcrete plans for a campaign. These plans are intelli-gent and have the best possible chance of success, be-cause careful surveys have been made. In planning measures for social relief in times of somegreat calamity or for dealing with some acute socialdanger, such as the restoration of the Yoshiwara inTokyo> these surveys are invaluable. Indeed the practiseis spreading of making careful investigations of social
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SERVANTS OF SOCIETY 155 conditions, even in normal times, in the cities and coun-try districts in which mission work is carried on. Thedevelopment of industrial and agricultural work, theopening of new mission stations and the bulletin andpublic lecture work done by missionaries are based onsuch surveys. The most scientific and useful methods ofgoing at the work of survey-making are given by Pro-fessor D. J. Fleming in his book Social Study, Serviceand Exhibits, to which reference has already been made. 3. Relief Work, Next in order comes the techniqueof the actual giving of relief. When times of great dis-tress come upon a land, the missionaries are not onlyprompt to act, but they are reckoned by the government,the Red Cross, and other agencies as being reliable au-thorities and also capable leaders of relief work. It isrecognized that better than any others they know theropes. During a famine in India, one missionary alonedisbursed a million dollars of relief funds. The im-mense tas

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