Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — WILLIAM T. STEAD THE LONDON EDITOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILLIAM T. STEAD THE LONDON EDITOR.

Editor William T. Stead, of London, who has for some time been studying poverty and crime as they exist in Chicago, has formulated a plan for a better spiritual and material condition. He issued a call to ministers of all religions to form a federation which should be a mighty force in purging municipal affairs of the evils that infest them. In response to his circular many clergymen gathered and the following plan was suggested : That the city be divided into districts, each district to be placed under the care of a church. The members of this church should visit all the houses, tenement and otherwise, in the district, seeking for destitution, both spiritual and material. Physical destitution should then be reported to the proper channels, and religious preferences should be reported to the church for which a preference had been announced.