The Influence of Christianity Upon Social and Political Ideas

THE Christian Social Union aims at producing citizens inspired by spiritual convictions and equipped by patient and thorough study. It is to further this aim that these Handbooks have been written. They ground their appeal on the Name of Christ: and they set out the actual and precise conditions of social experience under which the service of men, for Christ's sake, can be realized. Each department has been entrusted to an expert who is in thorough possession of his material. The reader can be confident that the treatment is adequate, and the statements trustworthy. Each has tried to make the Handbook committed to him a complete exposition of the matter in hand. It has, also, been considered right that the first Number of the Series should rehearse the central motives and aims with which the Union identifies itself. It is hoped that these direct practical Handbooks will help the members of our Union to carry out into efficient action the convictions to which Belief and Study have led them. I have been assisted throughout, in all the work that falls to an Editor, by the advice and judgment of Dr. Rashdall, to whom the Executive had authorized me to turn for help, and who has always given me all that I asked for.