THE WOEK OF   THE ANDOYEB   HOUSE   IN BOSTON

By WILLIAM JEWETT TUCKER

PRESIDENT  OP DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE,  FORMERLY   PROFESSOR   IN AKDOVER THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY

Lower, and Higheu Philanthropy—Growth of Organized Charity—Andover
House and the New Philanthropy—Its Religious Motive—Training of
Workers—Origin of the Name—Not Denominational—People Dealt
AviTii—Robert A. Woods—Administration—Principles upon which Work
is Conducted—Boys' Clubs—The Question of Tenements—Study of Soc¬
ial Conditions—Greater Boston—Andover House Association—Field
of Obsera'ation—Lectures—Place op Sympathy in Scientific Work—
Groavth  of the  Movement—After  Four Years.

rriHE distinction is iioav recognized, though not as yet very
I clearly defined in the public mind, between what is known as
the lower and the higher philanthropy. The lower philan-
thropy meant the attempt " to put right what social conditions had
put wrong." The higher philanthropy means the attempt " to put
right the social conditions themselves."

Of course, no moral significance attaches to the use of the term
"higher" as applied to philanthropy. The term, like the phrase,
" the higher criticism," is entirely free from assumption. Nothing
could have been nobler in motive or in practice than that first sim¬
ple charity which Avent out to meet the early poverty of the cities,
and Avhicli was ahvays ready to run upon its errands of mercy wdth-
out stopping to ask too many questions. It developed characters
of rare sensitiveness. Charity became one of the fine arts, creating
personal types of moral beauty.    Men saAv that it must be blessed

to give, Avhatever it might be to receive.    And when the problem of
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