John Wesley, Jr. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 273 pages of information about John Wesley, Jr..

John Wesley, Jr. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 273 pages of information about John Wesley, Jr..

6.  Delafield believes that beauty pays better than ugliness.  Therefore she is for trees and flowers, green lawns, and clean streets, paint where it properly belongs, and everybody setting a good example by caring for his own premises and so inciting his neighbor to outdo him.

7.  The only industries Delafield needs are those which can provide for their operation without forcing workers to be idle so much of the time as to reduce apparent income, and so to cause poverty, sickness, and temptation to wrongdoing.  The standard of income ought to be for the year, and not by the day; in the interest of homes rather than in the interest of lodging houses and lunch rooms.

8.  Delafield can support, or should find ways to support, the workers needed in her stores, shops, and factories, at fair pay, without making use of children, who should continue in school, and without reckoning on the desperation of those made poor by their dependence on a job.

9.  Amusements in Delafield can be and ought to be clean, self-respecting, and available for everybody.  This calls for playgrounds and weekday playtime, as well as plenty of recreational opportunities provided by the churches, without money-making features.

10.  The forms of amusement provided for pay can be and should be influenced by public opinion, positively expressed, rather than by public indifference.  Any picture house would rather be praised for bringing a good picture to town than condemned for showing a bad one.  Picture people enjoy praise as much as preachers do.

11.  Delafield’s many organizations should tell the whole town what they are trying to do, so that unnecessary duplication of plan and purpose may first be discovered and then done away with.

12.  Whenever a Delafield church, or club, or society, proposes to engage in a work that is to benefit the town, the plan ought to be made known, and in due time the results should be published as widely as was the plan.  This will help us to learn by our Delafield failures as well as by our Delafield successes.

13.  The churches of Delafield are Delafield property, as the schools are, though paid for in a different way.  Neither schools nor churches exist for their own sakes, but for Delafield, and then some.

14.  Every church in Delafield should have a definite parish, and every well-defined section or group should have a church.  The churched should lead in providing for the unchurched, and the overchurched might spare out of their abundance of workers and equipment some of the resources that are needed.

15.  The first concern of all the churches should be to reach the unchurched and to make church friends of the church-haters.  This goes for all the churches; it is more important to get the sense of God and principles of Jesus into the thought of the whole town than to set Protestant and Roman Catholic in mutually suspicious and hateful opposition; devout Jew and sincere Christian must realize that righteousness in Delafield cannot be attended to by either without the other.

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