Lyman Abbot and Lester Ward complicate the view that American's during this time period opposed social reform because Abbot was focusing on how to intergrate the idea of evolution with the idea of Christiany and Ward disagreed with the concept that the weak should be left to suffer. According to Abbot, "He will remember that the Church is not yet the bride of Christ, but the plebeian daughter whom Christ is educating to be his bride." When Abbot said this, he was akgnolwoging the imperfactions of the church and how it would need to be changed and molded to become truley devine. Also, according to Ward, "Yet, what is their attitude? They condemn all attempts to protect the weak, whether by private or public methods. They claim that it deteriorates