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 
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