The extolling of alms giving might appear foolish in the present day and
may not be appreciated when reconstruction of the economic structure of society on an
entirely new basis is actively canvassed.
We should try to understand it on the
background of a social organization which in those days was not even remotely conceived as
possible of alteration by law; All that was said in those days about charity should be
recast and applied to social service in the new order. The substance remains though the
form may change. |
