Excerpt from The Practice of Charity: Individual, Associated and Organized For the present edition of the Practice of Charity, the text has been revised throughout; and there have been added two entirely new chapters, those entitled "Some Elementary Definitions" and the "Test of a Good Society." The draft of a constitution for a charity organization society is also entirely new, differing in many radical particulars from the draft which appeared in the earlier edition. Attention is especially invited to the statement of Purposes and Objects, in which an attempt has been made to substitute a more positive form of statement than that which is in general use in societies of this kind, and one which more completely represents their real spirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.