ABSTRACT
Chicago was described by Carl Sandburg as having "big shoulders," whose "painted girls lure the farm boys under the street lights.” A long list of persons in Chicago—philosophers, novelists, poets, architects, painters, and thinkers like Darrow, Debs, and Harry Ward—were concerned with reform and social change. A prominent shirt manufacturer in Chicago, noting the ideal of Ward's, sponsored with the aid of the Chicago City Mission Society what one might call a street church. The Wards tried to get more Northwestern students to give time and effort to the settlement by inspiring them to follow the ideals of Wesley, Kingsley, and , as well as the "unto the least" pleas of Ruskin. Christian Sociology was a name often given to the churchly endeavors of which Ward was a part. Some have written that its greatest exponent was Walter Rauschenbusch, who was a dozen years Ward's senior.
