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phia; of American Institute of Civics, 38 Park Row, New York; of Society for Protection of American Institutions, Charities Building, New York. Hon. W. E. Chandler and Hon. W. A. Stone, Congressional Speeches and Reports on Immigration; also apply for Report to Commissioner of Immigration. J. W. Sullivan, Initiative and Referendum; Humboldt Publishing Co., 25c. Hon. S. B. Capen, Boston, Address on Municipal Reform. Charles F. Dole, The American Citizen; D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. Thomas J. Morgan, Patriotic Citizenship; American Book Co., N. Y., $1.00.

Professor Woodrow Wilson, The State; D. C. Heath & Co., $2. Professor F. S. Hoffman, The Sphere of the State; Putnams, $1.50. Albert Shaw, Municipal Government in Great Britain; The Century Co., $2. Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, Our Fight with Tammany; Scribners, $1.25. Dr. William H. Tolman, Municipal Reform Movements; Revell, $1. "Our Civic Renaissance," Review of Reviews, April, 1895. S. L. Loomis, Modern Cities and Their Religious Problems; Baker & Taylor Co., $1. Dr. Josiah Strong, Our Country; Baker & Taylor Co., 65c., 35c. J. J. Lalor, Cyclopedia of Political Science; C. E. Merrill, 52 Lafayette Place, New York. Tribune Almanac, 25c. The Statesman's Year Book; Macmillan, $3. W. D. McCrackan, Swiss Solutions of American Problems; Arena Publishing Co., Boston, 25c. Patriotic poems of Lowell, Whittier, Longfellow. R. M. Smith, Emigration and Immigration; Scribner, $1.40. Havelock Ellis, The Criminal; Scribner & Welford, $1. W. M. F. Round, Our Criminals and Christianity; Funk & Wagnalls Co., 15c. Arthur MacDonald, Criminology; Funk & Wagnalls Co., $2. Cyclopedia of Temperance and Prohibition; Funk & Wagnalls Co., $3.50. Josiah Leeds (528 Walnut Street, Philadelphia), The Beginnings of Gambling; Elijah Helm, The Joint Standard. Arthur I. Fonda, Honest Money. Coin's Financial School; Coin Publishing Co., Chicago, 25c. President F. A. Walker, Boston, Bimetalism (a tract for the times). Money; The Century Co., 75c. Professor R. T. Ely, Taxation in American States and Cities; Crowell, $1.75. The American Magazine of Civics, 38 Park Row, New York. Progress of the World," in Review of Reviews. World notes of New York Observer. The Literary Digest, New York. Professor John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States; Houghton, Mifflin & Co., $1.00. Dr. F. H. Wines, Punishment and Reformation; Crowell, Boston, $1.75. Daniel S. Remsen, Primary Elections; Putnams, 75c. Professor E. R. L. Gould, Baltimore, Popular Control of the Liquor Traffic, 50c. (Professor Gould's Report on the Göttenberg System can be had free from U. S. Department of Labor.) Conference on Charities and Corrections, each annual report. $1.50; John M. Glenn, Treas., Baltimore. Summary of State Legislation, annual bulletin indexing all State laws of previous year; University of the State of New York, Albany, 20c. Rev. W. F. Crafts, The Civil Sabbath; National Bureau of Reforms, 35c. Speeches of John G. Woolley, 5 cts. each. F. W. Clark, Agent, 294 Washington St., Boston. Albert Shaw, Municipal Government on the Continent; The Century Co., $2.00.

THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS SOCIOLOGY, IN 1895, WAS THE INAUGURAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL REFORM BUREAU.

[Incorporated.]

Headquarters: 206 Pennsylvania Ave., S. E., Washington, D. C., U. S. A.

Trustees: President, Ex-Senator HENRY W. BLAIR, Washington; Secretary, Rev. F. D. PowER, D. D., Pastor Vermont Ave. Christian Church, Washington; Superintendent and Treasurer, Rev. WILBUR F. CRAFTS, Ph. D., Washington; Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D., Ex-Chaplain U. S. Senate, Washington; Mr. L. T. YODER, Mr. J. W. HOUSTON, Mr. J. J. PORTER, all of Pittsburg; Mr. JOSHUA LEVERING, Baltimore, Md.; Mr. CLINTON N. HOWARD, Rochester, N. Y. Auditor: Mr. B. B. BASSETTE, New Britain, Conn. Field Secretaries: Rev. BERTRAND P. JUDD, Northern New England; Rev. ALFRED E. COLTON Eastern Massachusetts and New Jersey; Rev. RENETTS C. MILLER, Southern New Eng. land; Rev. ALBERT SIDNEY GREGG, New York State; Rev. GEORGE W. PECK, Ohio, Michigan, Ontario; Rev. A. S. DAGGETT, Indiana; Rev. F. W. EMERSON, Oklahoma to Manitoba; Rev. D. EVEREit Smith, Rocky Mountain States; Rev. GEORGE TUFTS, Pacific Coast; Rev. Wм. E. SHINN, Southwestern States; Rev. C. S. EBY, D. D., Eastern Asia, (Others to be appointed for eight districts additional.)

IS BASED ON FOUR GREAT PRINCIPLES; ATTACKS FOUR GREAT EVILS BY FOUR METHODS, AND IN FOUR FIELDS.

The Four Great Principles are: 1. Right relations among men, required by the second great commandment, do not spring spontaneously from right relations with God, but must be developed by education and organization. 2. As the individual is saved by the cross of Christ, the community must be saved by his crown, that is, by making the law of Christ the law of business and politics and pleasure. 3. Environment affects conversion before and after, and the churches should therefore unite to create a favorable moral environment, especially for children and child races. 4. As all vices cooperate, and all virtues are related, Christian churches and citizens should promote all true reforms on a comprehensive plan.

The Four Big Evils we fight most of all are: (1) Intemperance, (2) Impurity, (3) Sabbath-breaking, and (4) Gambling, which are four sides of one frowning fortress, that all good citizens should attack on all sides. We attack these by four methods, namely: (1) By legislation, (2) by letters, (3) by lectures, and (4) by literature.

The Four Fields are: (1) Local, (2) State, (3) National, and (4) International.

REFORM BUREAU'S PAST SUCCESS.

458 DISTINCT REFORMS ACCOMPLISHED UP TO 1907. Twelve acts passed by Congress were written by the Reform Bureau, and introduced at its request, and, with the help of other reform organizations. pushed to final success, as follows:

1. The act long desired by John G. Paton to stop the selling of liquor, opium, and firearms by American traders in Pacific islands having no civilized government. 2. The act to close by contract the gates of the St.

Louis Exposition on the Sabbath. 3. The law to suppress liquor-selling in all the immigrant stations of our country. 4. The new divorce law for the District of Columbia, limiting full divorces to one cause only. 5. The law to break up the divorce colonies" in the Territories, especially in Oklahoma, by requiring a twelve months' residence there before one can make application for a divorce. 6. The Johnson anti-canteen amendment, to remove from the camps of our young soldiers the temptation of intoxicating liquor. 7. The law to increase the penalty for seduction of girls under twenty-one in the District of Columbia. 8. The Senate resolution favoring an international treaty to suppress the selling of intoxicants and opium among all the uncivilized races of the world. 9. Amendment to forbid importation and exportation of obscene matter. 10. Prohibition for soldiers' homes temporarily. 11. Law compelling internal revenue officers to furnish official copies of federal liquor tax receipts for evidence. 12. Sunday closing for Jamestown Exposition.

PREVENTS BAD LEGISLATION,

The Reform Bureau has also prevented much bad legislation. It secured the defeat of the Bartlett-Cameron bill to license race gambling in the District of Columbia; and it defeated a similar bill in the Pennsylvania legislature, and two attempts to repeal the strict divorce law of the District of Columbia; also an attempt to grant a private opium monopoly in the Philippines.

158 ACTS OF GOVERNMENT secured.

REFORM BUREAU'S PLANS.

The Bureau is pressing the following measures:

1. A bill to forbid liquor-selling in soldiers' homes and in all parks and ships owned by the United States government. 2. A bill to protect nolicense territory from outside interference. 3. Allen District of Columbia Sunday bill. 4. The Burkett anti-gambling bill. 5. The Littlefield act to prohibit gambling in the Territories. 6. A national interstate anticigarette law. 7. An Anti-Polygamy amendment to the U. S Constitution. 8. A bill to forfeit a periodical's second-class mail privileges when once ruled out as immoral. 9. A Curfew law for the District of Columbia. 10. A bill to suppress liquor-selling in all the "Indian country" of Alaska. II. Sunday closing of all expositions receiving national aid. 12. A bill to prohibit the issuing of money orders or the registering of letters on Sunday. 13. A bill to prohibit opium traffic in all territory under U. S. jurisdiction. 14. A uniform marriage and divorce law by an amendment to the United States Constitution. 15. Better State child labor laws, restricting age at which children can work in mills, mines, and stores.

BUREAU'S PROGRESSING MISSIONARY CRUSADE.

16. Now that the emancipation of China from British opium is assured by the vote of the British Parliament and the consequent Chinese edict, this Bureau, which had Blücher's part in that Waterloo, will enlist public sentiment throughout the British Empire in support of President Roosevelt's proposal to the British government that Britain and America shall together submit to other powers a treaty to prohibit the sale of all intoxicants and opium among all aboriginal races; meantime preparing the way in other nations for world-wide cooperation in such a treaty. Special efforts will also be made to save China and Japan from adopting the beer saloon with other Occidental customs.

BIBLICAL SOCIOLOGY.

(INCLUDING BIBLE INDEX.)

[Besides indexing Bible passages of which sociological expositions are
given on the pages indicated, other passages are noted that are suitable
for texts or Scripture lessons in services devoted to social reforms; the
whole giving but a sample of the wealth of sociological truth to be found
in the Bible by those who accept the suggestion (pp. 30, 60) to read the
Bible sociologically.]

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