Excerpt from The Inner Mission: A Handbook for Christian Workers When Wichern, on the afternoon Of September 22, 1848, delivered his famous address at the Wittenberg Kirchentag, he sounded a trumpet call that aroused all Protestant Germany. For almost two decades he had been favored with extraordinary Opportunities for Observing the spiritual, moral, and physical wretchedness Of large masses Of the people; he had made a careful study of the causes which led to their degradation; he had clearly discerned through whom and by what means and methods the required relief must be brought about; and now, filled with warmest love to his Lord and to suffern humanity, and with a glowing zeal for service, he called upon the entire Protestant Church of Germany to make the work of the Inner Mission, which so far had been only sporadic, a part of her own life and being, and thus to demonstrate her faith by her love. That hour marked the beginning Of the Inner Mission as a general and systematized movement. As the immediate result of the impulse given by Wichern, the Central Committee for the Inner Mission of the German Evangelical Church was or ganized at Berlin, January 4, 1849, to be followed since then by many similar associations, provincial and local, in all parts of Germany, in the Scandinavian countries, and now even in America. 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.