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THE TALBOT SETTLEMENT 21'1
narrowness have something to say, but don't know what
they are talking about.
The branches of the Guild are spread about the country :
some thrive ; some pine ; but those that are firm and
persist are learning that Prayer is the greatest power in
the world If we remember Christ's caution that we are
not to suppose it makes no difference. For most people
that takes a life·time ; but all through they may feel the
uplifting assurance that they are doing God's prescribed
work and leaving the issue in His Hands. " In His Will
is our peace."
The Guild sets an example of economy, there being no
central office, but much secretarial work done for love.
The Bishop of Stepney is the present Warden ; my work
is that of a travelling secretary ; but the vitality of the
society is principally due to Mr. Fedarb, a name which
will be held in honour as long as the Guild continues. As
he is still with us I will say no more.
Perhaps what I have written in Chapter XIV may have
made it plain that if we really desire to put our reverence
for Christ into practice we shall engage ourselves to work
which has primarily reference to the world to come, not
designed simply to make more happiness in this world,
though it tends to this result. Because that is emphatically
what He taught and did. Sometimes the double aspect
. of work is manifest, it is so practical and so ideal. Such
is the work of the Talbot Settlement in Camberwell (not
to be confused with the' Talbot House, alia8 Toe. H.).
Till I became Chairman of the Council· I had no idea what
a Settlement is. What is it ?
A· home for voluntary workers, the woman's side 9f
the Cambridge House: not a very imposing description,
but consider what we should be without any such. The
work in the vast poverty-stricken areas of London for
keeping human life from sinking irretrievably is to a
certain extent the concern of the County and Borough •
Councils, but it should be known that without the voluntary
and unpaid workers who in manifold activities have