Abstract
Abstract In 1891 Wilhelm Baur, an important figure in the Inner Mission (the German national organization of the Protestant charities), used that organization’s journal to issue a troubling warning to his colleagues. The feverish pace of some conservative Christians’ charitable activities — what Baur called the ‘instrumentalization of Christian personalities for the common good’ — threatened to undermine ‘the intimacy and warmth of family life’ in their own homes, and thereby to become self-defeating in the long term. ‘Running around in the city while forgetting to sweep before one’s own door,’ he reflected, and ‘an associational life that deprived the house of mother or father in undue measure, would turn reason into nonsense and good deeds into a plague.
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