Individual Work

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 37.

Individual Work.—It is interesting to note that Mr. Charles Booth (no relative of the "General"), who probably knows more about the condition of the people of London than any other man, finds as the result of his studies that "almost every social and economic question . . . derives its ultimate practical importance from a more widely spread and more human care for the individual," and that the hope of uplifting the fallen lies not in State enterprise or collectivism, but in "the reform of the individual by the individual." God saves men, not in bulk, but as individuals; Christ died for the world, but only in that he tasted death "for every man;" therefore all who would join him in his work, must labor individually for individuals.