{"value"=>"e. Church's Influence on Social and Economic Progress Special Committee"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Chaired by Charles R. Towson, secretary of the Industrial Department of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association. From 1913 to mid-1914 the committee was known as the Committee on Institutional Church Work. The period 1913-1915 saw a crisis within mainline protestant denominations, particularly in the Protestant Episcopal Church, provoked by the fear in conservative circles that previously marginalized socialist ideas were being advocated from the pulpit masked as Christian social welfare service.</p>"}