| Show great need of today la Is return to io the idea of human partnership si by DR RALPH episcopal now new york HEIRE is too much patronage in american life today and too THERE little partnership As our citizenry hai bas been increasingly transferred from the tha soil boil to the city wo we have changed the tempo 0 our thinking from the slower processes of 0 the seasons to the quick exchanges and ticker tapes of tho the market place the race rac of competitive peti poti tive tivo life is ia so swift that we do not try to keep pace with one another therome tho The home illustrates the fact that parents do too much for their children and too little with them trio tha present ge generation ne ration of youth is ia more heavily patronized than ever wore were its predecessors somewhere between a bolshevism of adolescents and a paternalism of parents there ought to be a part partnership 1 p in which the experiences of tho the elders are blended with experiments p peri eri ments of the youngers in philanthropy the tha old friendly personal helpfulness of ou our r simpler earlier communities is icing being replaced by organized fm impersonal personal charity in religion we have now nor largely a mere professional propaganda aln financed alced by silent spectators we hire ministers to preach our sermons evangelists to recruit our church members and musicians to v voice oice our religious motives while the laity simply sit back and provide the funds such patron ago age can never bo be an adequate substitute for the partnership methods of the early church |
