f social conditions. It would ill become
us to speak slightingly of the work of those who have handed down to us
a precious freight of human sympathy and tenderness. If heavier
burdens of responsibility, more serious problems and more strenuous
ideals are now imposed upon us, we have also many advantages that were
undreamed of a hundred years ago. Now, if we would be charitable, and
possess any power of using the forces at our command, there are
hundreds of avenues of usefulness open to us where formerly there was
only one, and there are hundreds of {195} agencies ready to help. We
must know how to work with others, and we must know how to work with
the forces that make for progress; friendly visiting, rightly
understood, turns all these forces to account, working with the
democratic spirit of the age to forward the advance of the plain and
common people into a better and larger life.

Collateral Readings: "Friendly or Volunteer Visiting," Miss Zilpha D.
Smith in Proceedings of Eleventh National Conference of Charities, pp.
69 _sq_. "Friendly Visiting," Mrs. Marian C. Putnam in Proceedings of
Fourteenth National Conference of Charities, pp. 149 _sq_. "Class for
the Study of Friendly Visiting," Mrs. S. E. Tenney in Proceedings of
Nineteenth National Conference of Charities, pp. 455 _sq_. "The
Education of the Friendly Visitor," Miss Z. D. Smith in Proceedings of
Nineteenth National Conference of Charities, pp. 445 _sq_. "Friendly
Visiting," Mrs. Roger Wolcott in Proceedings of International Congress
of Charities, 1893, volume on "Organization of Charities," pp. 108
_sq_. Also Miss F. C. Prideaux in same volume, pp. 369 _sq_. and
discussion, pp. 15 _sq_. "Continued Care of Families," Frances A.
Smith in Proceedings of Twenty-second National Conference of Charities,
pp. 87 _sq_. "Friendly Visiting as a Social Force," Charles F. Weller
in Proceedings of Twenty-fourth National Conference of Charities, pp.
199 _sq_. "Company Manners," Florence Converse in "Atlantic," January,
1898. (This story is not a fair picture of associated charity methods,
but points out one of the dangers of spasmodic visiting.)

[1] Proceedings of Twenty-second Conference of Charities, 1895, p. 88.

[2] Proceedings of International Congress of Charities, volume on
"Organization of Charities," p. 21.

[3] Eleventh Report of Boston Associated Charities, p. 31.

[4] p. 27.

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APPENDIX

The illustrations of friend