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Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers By: Mary Ellen Richmond (1861-1928) |
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Transcriber's note: Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in
curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page
breaks occurred in the original book. For its Index, a page
number has been placed only at the start of that section. Footnotes have been renumbered sequentially and moved to the
end of their respective chapters. FRIENDLY VISITING AMONG THE POOR A Handbook for Charity Workers by MARY E. RICHMOND General Secretary of the Charity Organization
Society of Baltimore New York
The MacMillan Company London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. 1907 All rights reserved Copyright, 1899,
by The MacMillan Company. Set up and electrotyped January, 1899. Reprinted November, 1899; February, 1903;
February, 1906; November, 1907.
{v} PREFACE
This little volume is intended as a handbook for those who are
beginning to do charitable work in the homes of the poor, whether as
individuals or as representatives of some church, or of some religious
society, such as the King's Daughters, the Epworth League, or the
Christian Endeavor Society. The term "friendly visitor" does not
apply to one who aimlessly visits the poor for a little while, without
making any effort to improve their condition permanently or to be a
real friend to them. Friendly visiting, as distinguished from district
visiting, originated with the charity organization societies, some of
which are indefatigable in training volunteers to do effective work in
the homes of the poor. Though I should be glad to find that my book
was of some service to these societies, it was not prepared for their
use alone, and no {vi} mention is made, therefore, of the organization
of visitors into district conferences. For inexperienced workers, who
need leadership in their charity, there can be no better training than
the meetings of a well organized conference under a capable chairman,
and even the most experienced, by keeping in close touch with such a
conference, can do more effective work. The suggestions herein contained are not to be taken as all applicable
to the work of any one visitor. Friendly visitors that tried to adopt
them all would have to abandon their other interests, and their other
interests make them more useful friends to the poor. Like the words in
a dictionary, some suggestions will be of service to a few workers, and
others will be found applicable to the work of many. In addition to the standard authorities mentioned under General
References, a list for supplementary reading will be found at the end
of each chapter. These lists are in no sense a bibliography of the
subject. A handbook such as this is chiefly useful in suggesting
further inquiry, and, for beginners, I have thought best to include a
number of references out of the {vii} beaten track to stories and
magazine articles that seemed illustrative of the matter in hand. It will be seen that I have borrowed much in direct quotation in the
following pages from those who have preceded me in writing about the
poor, but my debt does not end here. Whatever I may be said to know
about charitable work my whole point of view and inspiration in
fact can be traced to certain definite sources. To some of the
leaders of the Charity Organization Society of London, to Miss Octavia
Hill, Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet, and Mr. C. S. Loch, it will be evident to
my readers that my obligation is great. It will be evident also that I
have been helped by Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell and other workers in New
York, who, against such odds, are making advances in the reform of
municipal abuses; and by that group too who, under the leadership of
Miss Jane Addams, have given us, at Hull House in Chicago, so admirable
an object lesson in the power of neighborliness. But more than to any
other teachers, perhaps, I am indebted to those members of the
Associated Charities who organized Boston's friendly visitors nineteen
years ago, and have {viii} led them since to increasing usefulness... Continue reading book >>
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