Download or read book The Romance of an Emergency (Classic Reprint) written by Mrs G S Reaney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romance of an Emergency For the general reader to follow this story fully it may be well to call attention to a fact but little understood by the world at large, namely, that the Society which moves in our midst (numerically at almost a standstill as shown by the last religious census, but never more forcible than to-day in its known adherence to first principles the Society of Friends, so often spoken of as the Quakers, claims to do its part to purify commercial life by devoting a certain proportion of its members to all legitimate trades. Comparatively recently the Society announced amongst themselves that certain branches of business needed very special support, and an appeal was made to young men, some with university training, choosing their life-work to devote their powers and energies in the direction specified, and with marvellous results. England owes far more than is usually known to the Quaker Firms whose care - physical, moral and spiritual - of their employés forms a splendid example in our midst, an example which, if followed generally, would go far to settle the nation's problems so associated with' overcrowding and underpaying. 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.