That is to say, they have too often been satisfied with the alleviation of the miseries of the hour, and have stopped short of the removal of the evils that have caused the poverty, vice, and agony from which the sufferings sprang.
Consequently, the work, being superficial, has in some cases only had superficial and temporary results.
You get out of a thing as much as you put in--and no more, and that, not only in quantity, but in quality.

If you go in for root-and-branch efforts, you will get root-and-branch results.
ii.

Another cause of our shortcomings has been the lamentable fact that some of our Officers have been deficient in personal religion.
Our Social Work is essentially a religious business.

It can neither be contemplated, commenced, nor carried on, with any great success, without a heart full of pity, and love, and endued with the power of the Holy Ghost.
iii.

Another of our difficulties has been the scarcity of suitable people for carrying the work on.