EVANGELICAL SOCIALISTS. II3 to be performed by almsgiving, and no doubt the giving of alms will always be indispensable in certain cases ; but if too easily attained or too abundant, alms degrade the recipients, and if transformed into an institution, they encourage idleness. Economic science proves that it is not so easy to do good. What is wanted is to put the labourer in the way of bettering his condition by means of his own efforts, and with this object to multiply those institutions which raise and civilize him, such as working men’s clubs, free libraries, savings banks, schools for adults industrial schools. The energy of philanthropists and Lns taaTlirectioTs ■ 1