The care committee, the child and the parent : a small volume containing the history of the provision of meals to the children of poor parents; and an account of children's care committees, their work and organisation, with particular reference to the place of the voluntary worker and the duties of an official / by Douglas Pepler.

  • Pepler, H. D. C. (Hilary Douglas Clarke), 1878-1951.
Date:
1914
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Credit: The care committee, the child and the parent : a small volume containing the history of the provision of meals to the children of poor parents; and an account of children's care committees, their work and organisation, with particular reference to the place of the voluntary worker and the duties of an official / by Douglas Pepler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rise of Helios, though but suggested by a few pieces of stone, can lead one far back into the wonder of Athenian history, and far forward into the un- known future which may be brighter for the splendour of a slum child’s reverence. How much also may we enjoy together the little engravings on coins and gems—they may give one a better history of Christianity than any book contains ; we may watch the ship, the symbol of the Church, sail the waters of life through many early century storms: there may be even a danger of our becoming too learned in the faith of the Gnostics or confused between Coptic and Abyssinian vestments ! I touch upon these treasures in our museums because we seldom think of them in association with the boy; they are hidden, we believe, behind glass cases, guarded by fierce policemen, whose duty it is to keep them from everyone save the most erudite professor. But as we realise that these cases are crammed full of romance, it may dawn upon us that the boy has a very pressing need to be intro- duced to them. In the same way, it seems to me, have the Saints and Fathers of the Church been shut up in stale, dusty books, until any semblance of life is lost to them. I am amazed at the way religion is taught either in school or church ; our Lord Himself is clothed in unnatural garments and placed far, oh ! so far, out of reach, when, if ever there was a hero who could clutch the heart of a boy, he was Jesus