Social Workers and Relief

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 119, 13 February 1935, Page 11

Social Workers and Relief

Sir,—l have read with interest the article dealing with the experience of the Rev. D. M. Martin during his vacation, lie is to be congratulated for spending his vacation in such a way, and I am sure that many of those who are professing Christianity, and who have never been down in the depths will have a little more sympathy and Christian love for those who are less fortunate than themselves. We know that Mr. Martin and the Rev. Fieldon Taylor, with numerous priests, clergymen, nuns and some social workers, are doing their best under trying circumstances to help the poor and the sick in “God’e Own Country.” In a country like New Zealand, where there is an abundance of food, why should men, women and children have to call at a relief depot to collect a few pence, worth of food or some poor clothes'? It is degrading. If the minister and members of the Churches were ail like this gentleman, it would not be very long before conditions would improve, for so much depends on the Churches. Give us men for the ministry whose vocation, it is, and not men who enter it as a profession. May the good God bless tl;e work of all others who have the welfare of God’s forgotten children at heart. —I am, etc., IN ARDUIS FIDEALIS "Wellington, February 6.