BISHOP ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD. 127
"The neglected class is that vast company of human
beings who are in sore need of brotherhood and the
helpful service brotherhood and nothing else can
bring to them. It would not be edifying to make a
list of Christian peoples' neglect. A single statement
will suffice: The greatest lack, the sorest neglect of
our times is the lack, the neglect of personal, helpful,
brotherly service. Such service cannot be rendered
vicariously through a committee; as to the love that
should belong to giving and receiving, and make the
gift holy and a blessing to both giver and receiver,
■committees are for the most part non-conductors. In
our Christian testimony and service we should, above
all things, make human brotherhood a living fact
•close by, and not a splendid doctrine afar off. When
Christians learn more perfectly what God's fatherhood
means, then they can show what human brother¬
hood is."
"No doubt there must be organization, but fearful
is the state of that church in which organization is
necessary because individuals will not do their own
work. Unless there is in addition to organization
also direct, personal, brotherly service, relief of the
poor by societies working through committees, will
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