In general, the Church has often rendered valuable aid by joining the advanced public conscience of any period in its protest against some single intolerable evil, but it has accepted as inevitable the general social system under which the world was living at the time, and has not undertaken any thoroughgoing social reconstruction in accordance with Christian principles.
p. 149-150 - Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) - Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?