Immerse In The Institutional Church: A Primer In Pastoral Theology (Classic Reprint) Developed By Edward Judson Delivered In Digital Edition
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At the risk of apparent incompleteness, only such kinds of educational and philanthropic work will be here discussed as have been actually tried by my own church in lower New York.
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It is more important that the poor should have beautiful churches than the rich,
An interesting book fromby Edward Judson, founding pastor of Judson Memorial Church at Washington Square in New York City.
The church was founded to try to bring the rich and the poor together, with what sounds like mixed success.
I was amazed how many of the problems of the era are still problematic today.
It was also fascinating to see Judson balance his Christian beliefs that all people are worthy, etc.
with the traditional Protestant work ethic, His take on the Good Samaritan isn't quite the same as mine, Or here's one solution for impoverished mothers:
"The Mothers' Meeting is a source of great help and encouragement to many poor mothers.
They come to the Church once a week for three hours to sew, and each is credited for her work with thirty cents, receiving the value of the money in groceries at wholesale prices, or in the clothing made at the meeting.
The women are more or less free to choose the garments they make, and it is pathetic to observe the eagerness with which some of them ask for sheets and pillowslips.
As a mother represents a whole family, we have found that the Mothers' Meeting has tided over many people at the hardest time in the year.
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Here are some quotes I found interesting, though I don't agree with all of them, and the one involving doctors sounds downright offensive to me although Judson's church actually offered free health care to the poor.
Taken together, I think the
selection of quotes offers a taste of how Judson sounds very "liberal" in some ways and very "conservative" in others.
a mission should be the natural overflow, simply, of the church life, not an effort on our part to provide a kind of servants' diningroom for people of low degree with whom we do not care to come into too close social contact ourselves.
Church institutionalism is nothing more than systematic, organized kindness, which conciliates the hostile and indifferent, alluring them within reach, and softening their hearts for the reception of the word of life.
Careful writing every day improves our style of speaking, enriching our vocabulary, and promoting a habit of nice discrimination in the choice of words.
And we should let no day pass without our reading from some good author, familiarity with whose style cannot fail of improving our own.
We may do more harm than good by attacking false systems of thought.
We advertise an error by preaching against it,
Comparatively few churches as yet being engaged in systematic charity, the poor will stream in upon you from other churches around you.
Your friends, perceiving your philanthropic disposition, will help you by unloading on you their poor relations so that, by and by, you become like a sinking lifeboat into which despairing passengers continue to throw themselves long after it is crowded full.
Again, the Good Samaritan is thrifty and businesslike in his beneficence, He counts out two pencetwo days wagesand reckons that this will meet the requirements of the case.
He does not in a gush of compassion overdo the matter, emptying his purse and leaving nothing for other needy cases.
There is a kind of New England flavor about the Good Samaritan, One feels sure that he would not let himself be imposed upon, but that he would do good in the most intelligent and scientific way.
Were he living now, I doubt not that he would be a friend and contributor to the Charity Organization.
I do not mean to depricate the public school, and the church should never ask for funds from the State with which to maintain her educational ventures.
And she cannot look to the State to instruct her children in religion, It is not right for us to foist our religious views upon an educational system that depends for its support upon people of every faith, and of no faith at all.
Even young doctors are allowed to gain their experience by treating the poor for, strange as it may seem, the physiological interior of the rich is the same as that of the poor, and, by experimenting upon those whom no one cares anything about, you can learn to cure people of high degree.
And we may learn that, as in the Apostolic day, an amalgam of nationalities will make a stronger church than the metal of any one race, and that there is no more potent witness to the divineness of Christianity than that abolition of race antipathy, which the Apostle calls the breaking down of the middle wall of partition between us.Edward Judsonwas an American Baptist clergyman, born at Moulmein, British Burma, a son of the missionary Adoniram Judson and his second wife, Sarah Hall Boardman.
He graduated inat Brown University, inwas appointed professor of Latin and modern languages in Madison now Colgate University, intraveled abroad, and after being ordained to the Baptist ministry in the latter year was pastor of a church at Orange, N.
J. , until. Thereafter to the time of his death he occupied the pulpit of a New York City church, first known as the Berean Church, later as the Memorial Baptist, and finally as the Judson Memorial, Dr.
Judson having erected a large building on Washington Square to house the congregation, equipp Edward Judsonwas an American Baptist clergyman, born at Moulmein, British Burma, a son of the missionary Adoniram Judson and his second wife, Sarah Hall Boardman.
He graduated inat Brown University, inwas appointed professor of Latin and modern languages in Madison now Colgate University, intraveled abroad, and after being ordained to the Baptist ministry in the latter year was pastor of a church at Orange, N.
J. , until. Thereafter to the time of his death he occupied the pulpit of a New York City church, first known as the Berean Church, later as the Memorial Baptist, and finally as the Judson Memorial, Dr.
Judson having erected a large building on Washington Square to house the congregation, equipped with the facilities of an "institutional" church.
He lectured on theology at the University of Chicagoand on Baptist principles and polity at Union Theological Seminaryand was made professor of pastoral polity at Colgate.
Inhe published a Life of his father, and he wrote also The Institutional Church, sitelink.