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Future Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, while Deputy Minister of Labour, favoured religious zeal over ethical passion and felt it improper and premature to promote the settlement movement in Toronto or anywhere else in Canada. Settlements set up on a religious foundation were still favoured. Reverend E.B. Horne in his report to the special Committee of Knox College articulated this, "The Social Settlement seeks to harmonize and civilize; this is good, but it is not enough for our purposes. We must seek also definitely to Christianize. We are going into this work not merely inspired by a thin, sentimental humanism, but also a positive, definite, aggressive, evangelistic, propaganda."

Influenced by the politics of the day, Kelso put off this dream until he was approached by Arthur Burnett and George Bryce early in 1911.

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William Lyon Mackenzie King as Minister of Labour
1905



Credits:
Library and Archives Canada, PA-027975

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Metropolitan Methodist Church interior by Alexander W. Galbraith
1915
Downtown Toronto


Credits:
City of Toronto Archives, 1568-277

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Knox College at Spadina Crescent
1900-1910
Downtown Toronto


Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records