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path to visit the widows, the orphans, the fatherless, the prisoners, and so forth. Definitely the circumstances of the life of the people of my generation was my business and I ought to do something about it.

That, of course, runs all through that great book of Jacob Riis' that I liked so. It runs through Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London. It runs through Benjamin Rowntree's Poverty. They were all devout Christians too. They approached the analysis of what people ought to do in a society from that point of view, although what was later called the “social gospel” as preached by Reinhold Niebuhr hadn't been discovered. These were also the days in which Father James O.S. Huntington was a very considerable influence, not only in the Anglican Church, but outside the church. He was the founder of the Order of the Holy Cross. He had a little group, which I was much too young to belong to. Vida Scudder belonged to it, I know. I think Mary Simkhovitch belonged to it possibly. They were studying the whole question of social relationships in the light of the gospel requirement of Christian living.

All these things had an influence. I wasn't committed to that pattern by any means, but it had an influence on my choices of what to do with my life, and upon stirring up a passionate desire to do something. I think it probably explains