Note 289 — Chapter IX · REFLECTIONS ON THE FOREGOING

Until the Salvation Army gave the lead, the clergy of the Church of England, who come from the possessing classes and are hand in glove with them, looked on unmoved while the grossest crimes were being committed against the men, women and children of the working masses. It was not a Church movement, as one might have expected, but an aristocrat who first agitated for the protection and care of women and children in factories.