was the description quite rightly given to missionary and diaconic ministries carried out by Christians in the world. Kingdom-of-God work—that was Johann Hinrich Wichern’s ‘Rauhe Haus’ for neglected children in Hamburg; that is what the industrial concerns were which Gustav Werner organized on co-operative lines in Reutlingen; that was Bodelschwingh’s idea of diaconic institutions for the handicapped in Bethel. I could give as examples Kagawa’s ‘kingdom of God movement’ in the Tokyo slums, the base