ABSTRACT
Harry Ward had been working to bring the church house into the middle of the road where humanity would pass through it. The side of the road seemed to serve those seeking personal escape in a seductive, oriental Garden of Eden. Ward, as chairman of the Labor Committee of the City Club, insisted that the church must break through these barriers and its members find themselves by losing themselves in serving the people. "The Church the Servant of the Community" was the first slogan of the Methodist Federation for Social Service, which was founded about five months after the appearance of "The Social Ideals of the Church," the name given to the Creed Ward, with suggestions from several associates, outlined. The purpose was to unite in pushing legislative action on bills to reduce hazardous work and to limit child labor.
