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its appearance now must appeal to us all of every age and class
of life. There is some lack in control, some lack in parental
education, some lack in moral conscience, some lack in
sympathetic religious instruction, or we should not have been
driven to work outside the camps or on the streets as now is
needful.

The old question is up before us acutely—who is to teach and
prepare the child for life ?——parent, school, or Church, and if our
answer be “all three” then it seems as if it were needful for the
Church to help parents and schools alike to deal with all the facts.
of life with healthier explicitness and in a truer perspective. We,
with our outlook on the wide world, with all our modern ideas of
the race, of eugenics, and of hygiene, must surely see down the
long line of life with its high lights of morality and its soft tones
of human possibility and provide better things for those who
follow us than we have provided for those with us now. These
are days in which to gain those new conceptions of religion,
morals, and ideals in our homes which will give us the parental
celationships we want, and provide the mutual sympathy and
respect that are essential.

3. Master and Servant Relationships.—We have the whole
question of labour and capital, worker and master potentially
here, and the solving of it greatly (and usefully) disturbs our
material comfort. Perhaps if we could apply ourselves unselfishly
and strenuously to the lesser—the domestic problem—we should
nave some genuine wisdom to bring to bear on the larger issue.
Here, however, is our own position. We may state it thus—in a
trade where women are more employed than in any other and
where women are virtually the employers, we have the least well
regulated system of all and the most perennial discomfort on both
sides, even if it be too feeble to become a state question. None
of us seems to be really grappling with it, and yet the strength of
our power as employers on the negative side is evidenced by the
fact that no Domestic Servants Trades’ Union has yet survived.
While surely such an institution should not be necessary in the
privacy of our homes, yet some measures we shall have to take
to re-establish the wholesome, honourable calling of domestic
service in the esteem of the younger working women. We all
deplore the flock of quite young girls who ought to be doing housework
 at home, partially educated, now thronging to the city as
clerks or even making their appearance in the bookstalls of railway
platforms, though this latter pursuit may be a temporary necessity
because of the war. They take up a calling in which they are not
destined to make a true or healthy success, and are absolutely illprepared
 for a future home life of their own and early accustomed
to undue publicity. We all admire the domestic servants known
to all of us who under happy conditions of service share the family