ABSTRACT
Though few adults attended church regularly, Loane argued that external signs of religious belief were unimportant to working-class men and women. They believed in the power of prayer, a deity concerned with the fate of humanity, and the immortality of the soul. A district nurse can, of course, only work where there is some kind of a home. It is a pleasure, and, like most other pleasures, must be left chiefly for the young. Many years’ experience of the poorest of the respectable poor have convinced the author that deep and true religion is commonly found among them, the chief tenets of which are: The existence of a Supreme Being intimately concerned with the life of men, and best served by loving faithfulness to the homeliest duties; the spiritual efficacy of prayer, and triumphant faith in the immortality of the soul.
