British Humanitarian Activity in Russia, 1890-1923 by Luke Kelly

Author:Luke Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The mixing of Christianity with humanitarianism carried dangers, however. As shown in Chap. 2, Christians worried that the organisation and adulation involved in charity work could overwhelm the genuine motivations of those who began the work. John Bellows , who had worked in the Quakers ’ Franco–Prussian war relief amongst other projects, but sought to maintain the testimonies of conservative Quakerism , worried that:so far indeed is the busy ‘philanthropic’ working which is now so popular from being a necessary accompaniment of a healthy religious life, either in an individual or a society, that it but too often marks a stage of decline from all that constitutes real life and power, and too often it is secretly, but unmistakably, leaned upon as an easy means of compromising for the neglect of closer and weightier duty.94

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