Sentences with phrase «mill of social reform»

«50 So pervasive were these Societies that in 1850 a Unitarian minister, but by no means an enemy to evangelical sentiments, complained that «the minister is often expected to be, for the most part, a manager of social utilities, a wire - puller of beneficient agencies,» and his character is often judged «by the amount of visible grinding that it can accomplish in the mill of social reform... «51